I didn’t want to let the day go by without passing this on. Earlier today while accompanying Cosmo on a deer recon mission, I listened to a bit of “World Have Your Say” the BBC international call-in show where global IQ regresses to the mean and keeps regressing. The topic was Hillary Clinton and — surprise — the two kinds of callers were either pro-Hillary or anti-Hillary because she was too pro-war or rightwing.

One caller, an American with either a British accent or a fake British accent — it was hard to tell — lectured the hosts about how Hillary is too rightwing. His chief evidence, explained in laughably haughty tones, is the (debatable) “fact” that Hillary has long been associated with the Democratic Leadership Council which is famously “neoconservative,” which the caller defined as “believing America has a sacred right to hydrocarbons, wherever it might find them around the globe.” (I’m quoting from memory, but I’m pretty sure I’ve got it right).

Ah, yes. Those famed geeky Jewish kids at Alcove 1 at City University sat their extracting from Trotsky’s writings their doctrine of the American Divine Right to Hydrocarbons.