CHRISTINE O’DONNELL, JOYCELYN ELDERS, AND MASTURBATION. “President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, fired Jocelyn Elders in 1994, after people freaked out when she said that young people should ‘perhaps … be taught’ about masturbation, because it is ‘is part of human sexuality’ and useful in keeping them from doing riskier sexual things.”

Well, I’m on the record as being proudly pro-sodomy, so you can probably guess where I stand. But I’m not angling for a political job, either. . . .

UPDATE: Or a job at the National Science Foundation.