Perhaps it is because I’m in a foul mood after watching my beloved New York Giants lose to a truly bad New York Jets football team, but I basically feel like the fact that Rand Paul is currently inhabiting Earth would fully justify obliterating the whole planet into rubble for a brand new asteroid belt. I mean, seriously, what’s the point? Why are we here and what are we trying to accomplish? There’s really no sign that sentient life has a future or is going to make any progress whatsoever.

Plus, how hard is it to make an extra point, Aldrick Rosas? How many weeks in a row are you going to botch the easiest play in sports?

In all seriousness, mankind is regressing morally and politically for the first time in my lifetime, and Rand Paul pretty much embodies this negative movement in almost every respect. There is not a wall hard enough to bounce his head off for making comments like these:

“I think we’ve gotten lost in this whole idea of quid pro quo. … If you’re not allowed to give aid to people who are corrupt — there’s always contingencies on aid. … Presidents since the beginning of time have resisted Congress, and there’s been this sort of back and forth jockeying over what is sent. But also presidents have withheld aid before for corruption. I think it’s a mistake to say, ‘Oh, he withheld aid until he got what he wanted.’ Well, if it’s corruption and he believes there to be corruption, he has every right to withhold aid.”

The evidence in this case is readily available in depositions that have been posted on the internet for all to read. I spent about six hours on Friday night reading the deposition of George Kent, and I’m not going to be a juror in a trial of the president. I spent that time so I would understand what happened. And now I know what happened, and it had absolutely nothing to do with rooting out corruption in Ukraine. Rand Paul wouldn’t spend six hours reading a deposition if you paid him, which you basically do by providing his government salary. He doesn’t want to know what happened and he isn’t going to tell the truth about the little that he does know. He’s just going to go on television and make impertinent and dishonest remarks to excuse behavior that we would never tolerate if carried out by a Democratic president.

Bring on the giant meteor of death if this is the best we can do as a species.