Limning the ludicrous

Ever since I opened the OpEd of the Paper of Record this morning and saw Ross Douth-Hat's weekly chin scratcher for people with malformed facial hair, I've been waiting for Dog House to weigh in. As if on cue, that wait (or should I say "weight"?) is over.

Fuck it, Ross Douthat just "wrote" a "column" touting Indiana's Angstrom Governor Mitch Daniels as the Official Republican 2012 Presidential Dark Horse, based, as always with Douthat, on someone else saying so first. I've been trying since I read it to figure out how to describe the emotion of seeing the World's Most Overexposed "Conservative" Thinker trumpeting the World's Most Ludicrously Over-Praised "Conservative" Executive; a fantasy scenario in which the Red Sox and Yankees mathematically eliminate each other from the playoffs on Opening Day, causing most of the Beantown sportswriting contingent to set each other on fire before hurling themselves out of the Press Box, only to land on Tony Kornheiser and Bill Simmons, both of whom are wearing ties made of C-4, is the best I've come up with so far, although "Canada beating US Hockey for Gold after a five-day Hubris Festival triggered by a semi-meaningless win in the Prelims" is running a close second.