Obama and the Orange Head

Andrew Klavan, one of the many stars of PJ Media, also writes for City Journal.  That's not him up there, it's simply a symbol brought to mind by his piece in the current edition of City Journal, which you can read in its entirety (it's not long) by clicking the link below.  I'll give you a taste by pasting the very beginning:

No Joke

Of human perversity and oranges for heads

A man walks into a bar. He has an orange for a head. The bartender pours him a drink and says: “So—you want to tell me about it?”

“Well, I was walking on the beach,” says the man with an orange for a head. “I found an old lamp in the sand and took it home. When I polished the lamp, a genie came out and offered me three wishes in return for setting him free. Thinking it was some sort of trick, I offhandedly wished for a million dollars. Instantly, the doorbell rang. A man had arrived to tell me I’d won a mail-order sweepstakes for exactly a million dollars. So I returned to the genie and wished I could have sex with every Playmate of the Month for last year. The doorbell rang again—and all 12 pinup girls came prancing in, at my service. I went back to the genie a third time,” says the man with an orange for a head, “and I think this may have been where I made my mistake.”

“What did you do?” says the bartender.

“I wished to have an orange for a head.”

 Now to give you a hint as to where Klavan was going with that story, here's the last part:

Consider that the earth, as if beneficent, has poured millions of years’ worth of energy into the fossils of its dead creatures, presenting us with the Promethean gift of fuels that elevate us beyond the imaginations of our ancestors. Our response? We nurture a superstitious dread of oil and coal and promulgate pseudoscientific disaster scenarios meant to teach panic and to quench the very fire of our freedom. Or consider, finally, that we were born into the freest, strongest, and wealthiest nation that mankind has ever known—and elected as our president a man who promised to “fundamentally transform” it.

Yes, I think that may have been where we made our mistake. We wished to have an orange for a head.

http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_snd-human-perversity.html