Schock and awesome

Well, Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) left his Congressional office yesterday. His bordello-red Congressional office.

To the very end he has been consistent in one regard: being utterly clueless and delusional. As he was passing through the threshold, hoping the door wouldn’t hit him in the butt, he said this of his much-shorter-than-he’d-hoped-for term in office: “I’ve done my best to contribute constructively to the process and to serve the people of my district and my country.”

(You remember Schock, right? Clipped for fiddling his expense reports and spending $40,000 of taxpayer funds to decorate that bordello-red office in the manner of Downton Abbey.)

What I loved most about the report of this event by NPR was their closing sentence:

“In an unrelated coincidence, PBS announced today that the show’s upcoming sixth season will be its last.”

First of all, what would a related coincidence be? Isn’t the whole point of a coincidence that it’s two or more events or circumstances without apparent causal connection?

But why bury the most significant news in the last graf? Because I am over-the-moon happy that the Abbey is hitting the road. I’m really hoping that we can get something actually entertaining to fill the hours and hours that PBS devotes to that dog-in-period-kit, and that people will attempt—to the best of their abilities—to get a life.

As for Schock—I’m hoping that the door actually did hit him on the butt. And I’m wondering who’s going to have to pay to have that God-awful office neutralized.