Now for this past week's illuminating headlines

We used to have really smart Republicans in Congress and not this fringe element of quacks like Rep. Paul Gosar, the far-right congressman from Arizona.

The January 19 headline in The New Republic read: Paul Gosar Whines There Aren't Enough White People in the Military

According to the piece, Gosar is agitated that fewer white people are joining the military.

He blames it on "woke ideologies."

I immediately looked up his biography in Wikipedia to ascertain whether Gosar, 65, had put his white skin in jeopardy by joining the military in the late 1970s.

He never served.

Besides being a total fla...