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This is, after all, a new class of superior human beings, or so a visitor from another planet might conclude perusing MSNBC or the pages of the supermarket tabloids. Many appear to be bereft of surnames - Chad is seeing Valerie on the sly after siring Jessica's little carpet drooler, meanwhile Bob is dying from some unmentionable disease entirely unrelated to his beachside romp with Jeffrey and a roving band of Hell's Angels...no, I don't know any of them, and I don't want to. "Celebrity Babies!" Geesh.

Nevertheless, they do appear to be keeping good company in the most fatuous, superficial, arrogant, feckless intellectual simulacrum ever inflicted on senior political office in the long and occasionally sordid history of the United States government. If we could manage to contrive a live trap baited with fame we could drown the entire disreputable lot in the nearest stagnant pond and the country would be the better for it.