* I have a New York Post column with the only workable plan to reduce government spending: a masked vigilante. It may seem ridiculous, but no one else has a workable solution and we need to do something.

We talk grimly about leaving all that debt to our children, but I don’t think many of us fully realize how horrible it would be. We probably have in the back of our minds: “Children today receive much more expensive educations than we did, so they’ll be better able to figure things out.” But when it’s up to our children and our children’s children to cut spending, guess what they’ll conclude? “Hey, here’s a great way to reduce costs: Take all those old people who left us trillions and trillions in debt and throw them out in the street.”

* So we’re finally getting rid of Barney Frank, as it ends up the only reason such a horrible, horrible congressman could stay in office was very precise gerrymandering and now his district is getting changed. Can we do anything about the awful people who kept reelecting them, though. Can’t we publicly shame them. I want their names printed in registries like sex offenders.

With the economy in complete shambles, someone suggested Barney should hang up a “Mission Accomplished” banner as he leaves. Really, the only just end is for him to go to prison and have all his fortune confiscated, but at least he’ll be gone.

* Apparently the British embassy in Tehran is being stormed. I know if I lived in a horrible oppressive country like Iran whose government kept everyone backwards, the one thing I’d be really mad at would be… the British.

As I’ve said before, the problem in the Middle East isn’t that everyone is too angry — because there is a lot to be angry at there — they’re just never angry at the right things.

* Fitch Rating is keeping America at a AAA status, but changed our outlook to negative and expect to reduce our rating because we can’t do any actual spending cuts. Hopefully they’ll reduce our credit rating soon so Barney Frank can add that to his resume.

* In a book review about the KKK in the New York Times, it was slipped in how the Tea Party is like the KKK because… who knows. You’d think if the person paid attention to the book, he’d notice all the similarities between the KKK and the New York Times editorial board. Like the KKK, the New York Times is made up of people of dying cultural significance who cling to the past and try to prop themselves up by their views that others are inferior. The KKK held the evidence-less view that blacks are inferior to keep their worldview, while the New York Times holds the evidence-less view that conservatives are violent and racist so they don’t have to change their worldview. Also, both are predominantly white.

* More trouble for Cain. If they’re all false accusers, he certainly has a lot of them. Of course, we all know Newt had an affair, but there’s no denying there. Well, maybe it’s all nothing… but it’s certainly a lot of nothing and hasn’t helped with other Cain concerns such as foreign affairs. Maybe Cain would be good in the cabinet though — but everyone would probably expect him to bring pizza to every cabinet meeting. They don’t give him free pizza anymore, so that’s unreasonable.

* Wisdom of the Day: “Herman Cain has now denied more sex than I’ve had.” –Josh Malina

* Really detracting from the green-ness of the Chevy Volt is how it might burn your house down. Do you know the carbon footprint on that? It’s not good. But think of how much you’ll save on gas by no longer having a home to drive to!

What I want to know is how do you take the explosive fuel out of a car and make it more flammable? Genius engineering, that’s how. Good job, government motors!