It's not the carbs, it's the anal sex.

America has long ruled the roost as the home of the world's silliest office-holding right wingers. As with so much else, though, the rest of the world is catching up quickly. In fact, Great Britain may have just pulled right up beside us. Try to follow the logic here:

Tebbit, the former chair of the Tory party and its current Whip in the Lords, was debating the growing problem of obesity with a member of the governing Labor party on a British radio program. He suggested Labor's "promotion of buggery" was "intimately connected" to the increasing number of overweight people.

"Families now so seldom eat together. They don't prepare meals properly. Wives are pressurized into thinking they ought to go out to work instead of looking after their children. And it is the breakdown of family that is at the root of it." The government, he charged, was doing nothing about this but it was busy promoting gay marriage.

"We not only have an epidemic of obesity, we have a huge problem of AIDS and the Government's attitude is to do all it can to promote buggery."

Hmm. I never made the obesity-buttsex connection before, but now that you mention it, well, it still doesn't make any sense. Lord Tebbit wouldn't comment for this web post, as he was too busy sewing his non sequitur merit badge on his scout uniform. He's a ringer, no doubt, but despite the new high quality of British wingnuttery, we Yanks still have a probably insurmountable lead based on quantity.