The Glory of the Palmetto State

1. Late summer: Governor Mark Sanford gets nailed in an absurd coverup for having an affair with an Argentine woman (his "soul mate")--he was "hiking the Appalachian Trail," creating a fabulous new euphemism for muckrakers and lovers of snark everywhere. Sanford was a premiere family values demagogue before this, of course.

2. August: Rep Joe Wilson loses his short stack and hollers, "you lie!" at President Obama during his health care address, a first in something like 100 years. Side note: Obama was speaking factually, as was later ascertained by even mainstream media and Joe Wilson was, well, just a little excited about the whole thing.

3. Today: Rep Jim DeMint of South Carolina decides to travel to Honduras to express his firm support for the military coup government that the President's Administration is trying to diplomatically undermine and urges them to "resist" the United States.

Wow. What a month or so for our patria, ma.