The word of the day, and perhaps the year, is, "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"

Whatever it was, he sounded like he meant to go to a proctologist but accidentally visited a chimney sweep instead. Jonah Goldberg on the primal scream as Mad How jumped the shark.

At the Weekly Standard, Jonathan V. Last reports from New Hampshire, where he spent Monday night watching the Iowa returns, and Fred Barnes gauges Iowa winners & losers.

Last on Dean: It isn't that he lost Iowa, it's that two candidates who voted for the Iraq war and campaigned as pleasant adults, beat him 70 to 18 percent.

When this sort of thing happens to someone who runs on condescending arrogance…

“Here's a good one — highly qualified teachers, right? The president is going to decide who highly qualified teachers are! [crowd laughter] He had so many of them, right? [more laughter] I shouldn't have said that. It's not presidential."

-- Howard Dean, December 28, 2003, in speech in Ames, Iowa, on the campus of Iowa State University

…It's all the more satisfying.

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A natural Kerry constituency would seem to be French-looking Vietnam veterans.

As it happens, most Foreign Legionnaires at Dien Bien Phu weren't, in fact, French (many were German veterans of the Wehrmacht), but the generals were, as reflected by some distinctly Gallic military priorities:

A few French idiosyncrasies will astound American veterans. Within the fortress throughout the battle were two official French Army Mobile Brothels, one with Vietnamese women and the other with Algerians. Although they couldn't bring in enough engineering materials to properly fortify their positions the French made room on pre-battle supply flights for 45,000 gallons of wine, and then airdropped additional French Army-developed wine concentrate during the battle itself, causing troops to mount aggressive missions into Viet Minh lines to liberate wine concentrate that fell outside the fort!

Toast Jacques Chirac's health in your own French Indochinese pith helmet, Big Head Version, with a carton of 18 costing less than two John Kerry haircuts.

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A caller to the Howie Carr show asks: If multimillionairess Teresa Heinz' husband was looking for a catchy and alliterative post-Iowa victory slogan, why "Comeback Kerry?" Why not "Ketch-up Kerry?"