Todd sent me this today, and it’s worth sharing. (It would probably be funnier if it wasn’t true.)

The Republican congressman for North Carolina, Walter Jones, regrets his pettiness of demanding that cafeterias in the House of Representatives’ office buildings ban the word “French” from menus, replacing it with the word “Freedom”. Jones says it was a “light-hearted gesture”, but when this happened in 2003, many of us immediately saw it for what [...]