Visiting the Huffington Post by accident (thanks Michael Rubin) I saw this ditty from Richard Belzer. It begins with quite a whopping opening sentence:

The Death of Conservatism
The heartless, spiritually bankrupt intellectual frauds who openly court — and are disturbingly non-judgmental of — the most intolerant loathsome elements of the political landscape (who for some unconscionable reason have been consulted about virtually everything our government has been doing or undoing for the past six plus agonizing years) — these are the fruits of a particular strain of conservative idealogues with a shared affinity for the Hobbesian view of humanity, which postulates that people are essentially evil and the role of the ruling class, the government, was to have a standing army and police presence and little else. Essentially that the “people” were totally on their own, frontier-style with no public services, healthcare, college grants, headstart, maintenance of roads and bridges, public defenders, job training programs, Medicare, Medicaid; you get the picture.

Now technically, there are two sentences in there because there’s a period about two thirds of the way through but what follows that period isn’t, in fact, a sentence as far as I can tell.

This, by the way, is the most interesting aspect of his tirade. Oh, but just for the record: the whole thing is idiotic.