An observation on Burger King

Fast food is decadent. It's carefully tuned to hit the high points of the ape experience of eating-- salt, fat, sugar. Even the bun is optimized to remind your ape self of the pleasure of tearing flesh without much resistance, while the sauce is laced with smoke-flavorings designed to trigger the atavistic memories of meat cooked over a fire. If that's not decadence-- putting all of the pleasures of raw eating into one obscenely dense package, leaving out nothing, what is?

The United States is 68% white.

The United States is 68% white, 15% hispanic, 12% black and 5% Asian, which explains why this montage of all the photos in the Republican press release on their new "Pledge to America" document, their new version of the "Contract with America" and roundly panned here and here, shows a raftload of paleskins and damned little else.