Appointing Senators reminds me of this bit of dialog from BlackAdder, where the Prince contemplates bribing one of the Lords with a judgeship:
E: Well, you could appoint him a High Court judge...
G: Is he qualified?
E: He’s a violent, bigoted, mindless old fool.
G: Sounds a bit *over*qualified
there are only two things you bludgeoned me into watching and i enjoyed both— The Big Lebowski, and Flight of the Conchords. I follow thebotlebowski on twitter, as i am sure you must, and yesterday i literally LOLed at it, and of course wanted to retweet it or otherwise bring it to your attention, but do not want the profanity in my timeline~! “this is what happens when you F* a stranger in the @$$”. I RORed.
haha