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There’s a buzz surrounding Ms Elizabeth Warren as a possible Supreme Court nominee, to which I emphatically say, NO! We need the smartest woman in the country managing the communal bankbook.

Meanwhile, over in the “real America” Caribou Barbie just won’t shut up. She uses her folksy charm as a way to hide the fact that she knows NOTHING. Here’s what she said to Hannity regarding nukes in Iran.

No administration in America’s history would, I think, ever have considered such a step that we just found out  President Obama is supporting today. It’s kinda like getting out there on a playground, a bunch of kids, getting ready to fight, and one of the kids saying, ‘Go ahead, punch me in the face and I’m not going to retaliate. Go ahead and do what you want to with me.’

Striking the perfect note, POTUS responded in the media with a smash to the net that was witty yet classy. Here is President Obama in an interview with ABC News:

The last I checked, Sarah Palin is not much of an expert on nuclear issues …  if the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff are comfortable with it, I’m probably going to take my advice from them and not from Sarah Palin.

This was the same week that POTUS signed a nuclear ban with Russia. Meanwhile, back in wingnut land, Ms. Palin has found her soulmate.  From the Wall Street Journal, on meeting Rep. Michele Bachmann, part of the lunatic fringe from Minnesota.

I knew that we’d be buddies when I met her when she said, ‘Drill here, drill now.’ And then I replied, ‘Drill, baby, drill’ and then we both said, ‘You betcha!’

Ray Kroc had to be convinced by the marketing dept that people would go for this

In this section of Omnivore’s Dilemma, author Michael Pollan discusses the supersize-ing and big gulp-ing of the American diet, which is one reason why 35 percent of the people in this country are obese.

One might think that people would stop eating and drinking these gargantuan portions as soon as they felt full, but it turns out hunger doesn’t work that way. Researchers have found that people presented with large portions will eat up to 30 percent more than they would otherwise. Human appetite, it turns  out, is surprisingly elastic, which makes excellent evoluntionary sense: It behooved our hunter-gatherer ancestors to feast whenever the opportunity presented itself, allowing them to build up reserves of fat against future famine.

Obesity researchers call this the “thrifty gene.” And while the gene represents a useful adaptation in an environment of food scarcity and unpredictability, it’s a disaster in an environment of fast-food abundance, when the opportunity to feast presents itself 24/7.

Our bodies are storing reserves of fat against a famine that never comes.