Dr. Metablog

Dr. Metablog is the nom de blague of Vivian de St. Vrain, the pen name of a resident of the mountain west who writes about language, books, politics, or whatever else comes to mind. Under the name Otto Onions (Oh NIGH uns), Vivian de St. Vrain is the author of “The Big Book of False Etymologies” (Oxford, 1978) and, writing as Amber Feldhammer, is editor of the classic anthology of confessional poetry, “My Underwear” (Virago, 1997).

A New Look at the Republican Anus

What in the living heck did Republican elder Haley Barbour mean when, discussing his party's recent electoral disasters, he announced that "we’ve got to
give our political organization a very serious proctology exam. We need
to look everywhere”? 

I've got to guess that he "misspoke." Surely he didn't mean to claim that GOP office-holders have their heads so far up their own asses that it's going to take a  proctoscope to locate them? 

In a related development, the chief of
Maine's Republicans Charlie Webster was astonished to discover that black people and Asians were voting in his state. It must be, he guessed, voter fraud (although a better guess would be that his neighbors of color have always been invisible to him). "We've got to nip this in the butt," he told a reporter for TPM.

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