Brain is Offline

If I don't post something soon I'm going to turn into *don't say that name!* -- oh, all right.  I won't.  But at the moment the political scene would cause me to chew off my arm out of frustration if I weren't so depressed.

So apparently Mr. Romney is in Britain and is having trouble keeping his feet from his mouth, and John Cassidy, one of the bloggers for The New Yorker introduced his readers to a slang term:

In its Friday edition, the Sun, Britain’s best-selling newspaper, labelled him “Mitt the Twit.” It may not be entirely coincidental that the Sun is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has recently been busy denouncing Romney on Twitter. But other British papers have been equally critical of Romney, including the conservative ones that are apt to be sympathetic to Republicans. A columnist at the Daily Telegraph—a.k.a. The Torygraph—called him a “wazzock,” a term of abuse that I hadn’t heard since my childhood in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

[...] When I was young, it was used to describe a hapless idiot who blunders around doing and saying things he or she shouldn’t. Wazzocks don’t necessarily have bad intentions, but they tend to bring trouble to themselves and others. Romney, for all his business success and Harvard degrees, sometimes seems to fit the description.

More when the brain comes back online.