WaPo's Alexandra Petri reports on what really happened after President Obama's announcement yesterday. There was ...
the Kraken rising from the deep and swallowing Alaska.
And ...
frogs falling from the sky and all the rivers turning to blood. Darkness covered the earth. Joe Biden was set upon by sea-serpents.
Also ...
Rick Santorum was spirited up into the sky before the rest of the scene became too difficult to watch. Dogs and robots began wedding each other. Couples celebrating their golden anniversaries stripped off their clothes and forced the attendees to participate in orgies.
This is good, and invaluable, reporting. Most of what we know about the frenzied wild kingdom of that strange and wondrous habitat of righteous-wingus lunaticus comes only from sterile observation posts from far afar; here, though, we get the sense that Ms. Petri has actually dwelled among these marvelous little people and studied their funny little ways and their odd little superstitions and thus can intimately render, for our immense benefit, their alternate universe for public study.
Political anthropologists everywhere owe Ms. Petri a great debt. We look forward to her future dispatches from Gopland's dark and rustling underbrush. Courage, Ms. Petri. Courage.
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