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Last week a customer sent me something that appeared at a satirical website they thought I would enjoy.  It was called The Five Saddest Things People Do To Look Smart.  (Momma, don’t click the link.  There’s some dirty words there and I’m already skating the edge with what I want to do to Pete Olson’s campaign bus.)

I’ll just tell you the good part —

So you’ll get a kid that’s just read Atlas Shrugged and thinks they’ve stumbled on a “I bet you never thought of this” goldmine of ideas to dump on people and dazzle them, not realizing those ideas are on the fringe not because they are obscure but because most people think they are lame.

Exactly.

And, it also explains why Rand Paul is generally as confused as a goat on Astroturf.  He starts the week by lecturing us all about how the Patriot Act is evil, evil, Stalin evil, but then takes a sharp right turn and says on the radio….

I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin, or on their religion, but I would take into account where they’ve been traveling and perhaps, you might have to indirectly take into account whether or not they’ve been going to radical political speeches by religious leaders. It wouldn’t be that they are Islamic. But if someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government, that’s really an offense that we should be going after — they should be deported or put in prison.

So, Rand, what if I’m an innocent bystander at a street corner speech?  I can be put in prison for merely listening?  Doesn’t that kinda violate my First Amendment rights?

Look, if you’re going to go to all the trouble of being an ideologue, go the tiny bit extra and be a good one.

Personally, I think he read the Cliff Notes version of Atlas Shrugged.  I imagine it’s not any good either.

And, y’all, what is that thing on his head?  It looks like Donald Trump got a perm.