Fracking Frackers Fracking Frack

Well, it looks like Rick Santorum is a serious candidate again.  Rick Santorum.  A serious candidate.  Of course, it’s rather comical.  He will drain votes away from Romney, as will Gingrich, and Paul will plod along getting his 15 or 20% in every state, because his base runs

Destroying the planet, one well at a time

nationwide and in primary states with proportional allocation of delegates or caucus states, he’ll pick up a few, so, gridlock.

But one thing I think we should do is drop this meme about google Santorum, heh,  heh, look, it’s a dirty word.  It was funny the first couple of thousand times, but it’s just not that cute any more, it’s kind of gross, and he’s obviously weathered that political storm.  It’s as overused as the Goddamn America! statement from the Reverend Wright.

If he should get the Republican nomination, there are plenty of real issues we can use against Rick Santorum.

But that’s not to say that words don’t have power.

Take fracking, for instance.  It’s short for hydraulic fracturing, which sounds equally evil.  It means to pump water into a slanted, drilled out space in order to fracture the rock and release the natural gas.  The natural gas people make lots of money but all sorts of nasty chemicals get into the water supply.  Nobody knows exactly what chemicals.  That’s a secret, like KFC’s 11 top secret herbs and spices.

So not only does the word, which, like santorum, was deliberately delegated as an obscenity on Battlestar Galactica, have truly nasty connotations, it indicates a truly obscene act.  The deliberate destruction of the planet earth.

It’s fracking disgusting.

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