Skinny Cooks

Mabel Hoffman of Crock Pot cooking fame, just died at 88. She wisely observed that, “Skinny cooks can’t be trusted.” Skinny people don’t cook delicious, fattening food or eat it; Mabel did and lived longer than most phoney, calorie-counting wraiths. Why does this remind me of a phrase I heard years ago in my youth, “Don’t ever trust those damn Dems? ” Those damn Democrats, like skinny people, always maintain a fiction that their vision of reality is real when in reality it’s fiction. For example, the lie about the ‘tea baggers’ spread by damn Democrats. Tea party protesters are non-violent, civil, patriotic citizens. In contrast, today’s crazed damn Dem protesters of education cuts in California are violent, foul-mouthed, weapons- rich thugs whose behavior just burnishes the good reputations of peacemakers like Martin Luther King and Chandi.