InstaMoron

We were amused (though not very) by a short item in The NYT yesterday in which the author felt that

The most important function of a vice president is to serve as a spare president. Using the spare president in the ordinary course of business is as unwise as driving on one’s spare tire. Spares should be kept pristine, for when they are really needed.

We wouldn't compare a person occupying a job to a spare tire, & the above analogy is even lamer than that. Who could have written this tripe, which also ends agreeing that Gov. Sarah Palin was right in her "The Vice-President runs the Senate" statement. So we looked, & (Horrors!!) it was one Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a "professor of law at the University of Tennessee." Others may know him as "Instapundit," proprietor of one of the lamest sites on the web. (We thought we were tuning out poop here, but there's no comparison.)