Because it’s been an extremely boring day here in Washington (seriously, we got all excited about a new Treasury Secretary), let’s turn for entertainment to the lunatic fringe of our happy socialist friends across the sea:

Dutch pedophiles are launching a political party to push for a cut in the legal age for sexual relations to 12 from 16 and the legalization of child pornography and sex with animals, sparking widespread outrage.

We enjoy Reuters’ seeming surprise that even the freewheelin’ Dutch, despite their refusal to arrest people for smoking weed, are OUTRAGED by pedophilia. We are also trying to figure out some way for American political strategists to make hay out of it. Seems difficult, as these guys don’t have that lengthy a platform, but we found an angle in the last graf:

The party also said everybody should be allowed to go naked in public and promotes legalizing all soft and hard drugs and free train travel for all.

That’s right. Sex with animals, kiddie porn, and mass transit. It’s just wrong.

Pedophiles to Launch Political Party [Reuters]

Utah: we don’t get it. Is everyone there preternaturally friendly and white, or just the ones they allow the rest of us to see? Case in point: the “DC notebook” column of the Salt Lake Tribune. It is ostensibly written in the style of a “gossip column,” but every item is about how much everyone in the Utah congressional delegation is preternaturally friendly and how they all like one another. Then there’s this item:

Through most of Thursday’s confirmation hearing for Gen. Michael Hayden to head the CIA, a woman in dark glasses with short, bleached-blonde hair and wearing a teal track suit sat in the audience giving “google-eyes” to [Orrin] Hatch, reports a Senate spy.
At one point, the woman approached a Senate guard and told him her name was Bobbie, that she was in love with Hatch and wanted to give him a kiss.
She left apparently before anyone got her full name, but it reportedly gave Hatch a “hoot.”

Ew. Just ew.

Seriously, Utah, cut out this creepy stuff or we will give you back to the Aztecs.

DC Notebook [Salt Lake Tribune]