Today’s Required reading

Mike Sheehan has a hilarious Q&A with the always brilliant Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone contributor and provocateur extraordinaire. He is among my absolute favorite writers working today and his most recent book, “Smells like Dead Elephants" is one of the funniest and acerbic bits of political satire I have read in a while. The following is a big ‘ol slice of why:

S&R: If you were Jesus, would you use your divine powers to meddle in the outcome of sporting events, as teams like the Rockies believe he does?

Taibbi: If and when I ever get to be Interior Minister, one of my first acts is going to be the putting to death of anyone who thinks God interferes in the outcome of things like sporting events and elections. I’d want to have a giant shark tank built expressly for this purpose. Just throw them in there and then dump a couple of barrels of cow blood in the water.

Word.