Sorry. I'm obsessed today. It may cost me my sanity, or lead to punching walls or windows.

I think chocolate covered pretzels are a disgusting idea, but if you could chocolate coat a rasher of bacon and keep it crisp, I'd at least try it out.

Dark chocolate.

Butter on pancakes doesn't work for me since I'd have to use gobs and gobs to achieve the required moisture. I'm picky like that.

Trent Lott is still a Senator?

I would probably eat a chocolate sausage sandwich. Something about that sounds good. Chocolate with most fruits however? Nuh-uh.

I think chocolate covered pretzels are a disgusting idea

BLASHPHEMER!!!

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I need a bumper sticker that says, "Have you punched your senator today?"

Now I want to go to Eggspectations, dammit. Or, in a pinch, Jessica's house.

Potatoes and chocolate chips do not belong together.

In my world, potatoes are a neutral starch. Sort of like how I'm perfectly happy to toss fettucine in sour cream and strawberry preserves.

Neutral starches are okay in my book around chocolate. Hell, they're even encouraged to comingle.

I think chocolate covered pretzels are a disgusting idea

Oh my no. The only thing better than chocolate-covered pretzels are chocolate-covered peanut-butter pretzels.

I'll try chocolate-coated almost anything once. (Chocolate-coated grilled garlic cloves? Better than they sound! And bonus points for being served on a stick, as festival food should be.)

There is supposedly an Eggspectations here in Columbia, MD. I'll have to investigate whether they are still open or not and, if so, where they are hidden because that the Construction sounds like total YUM to me.

Different departments here host breakfast on Fridays. It's gotten pretty elaborate (there are electric griddles kept here for frying up bacon and eggs, making pancakes etc). Today was awesome Southern breakfast with grits and eggs and biscuits and fried apples and there were cinnamon rolls and turkey bacon (the ladies hosting this week don't eat the swine, as they say) and really delicious fruit salad. I'm still full from this morning!

I'm not onboard with potatoes and chocolate, unless it's french fries and a milkshake. Yum.

Pretzels and chocolate are better separate than together.

In partial salve for the Trent Lott nastiness, here's what the Focus on the Family fucktards are up in arms about today:

Former Texas Congressman Dick Armey, once a stalwart ally in the culture wars, appears to be turning his back on Christian conservatives and their leaders.

The former majority leader of the House of Representatives reportedly told Ryan Sager, author of a new book on the Republican Party, that values voters and their leaders — especially Focus on the Family Action Chairman Dr. James Dobson — are “nasty bullies.”

In the interview, Armey responded pointedly when Sager asked why he thought Christian conservatives seemed more powerful now than in the 1990s.

“To a large extent, because Dobson and his gang of thugs are real nasty bullies,” Armey said. “I pray devoutly every day, but being a Christian is no excuse for being stupid. There’s a high demagoguery coefficient to issues like prayer in schools. Demagoguery doesn’t work unless it’s dumb . . . These issues are easy for the intellectually lazy and can appeal to a large demographic.”

Dick Armey. Dick Armey. Maybe there's some hope for people to see the light after all.