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I read somewhere recently that not long after Romney's announcement of his running mate, Google searches for "Paul Ryan" and "shirtless" shot through the roof. Undoubtedly this was due in part to the revelation that Ryan is a devotee of the infomercial workout known as P90X. If only people craved deets on Ryan's radically-destructive, mathematically-impossible budget like they do glimpses of his abs, we'd all be much better off. Speaking for myself, I can't even stand to look at the man's cold, dead eyes. Also: enough about what a brainy wunderkind he is. Ryan is an intellectual in the same way that people well-versed in specious vaccination theories are "intellectuals."

If you haven't heard about the Buckyball controversy, you can read more about it here. I don't have particularly strong feelings either way, though right-wing blowhards apparently do.