Demagogue

...is that no matter how obsessed you may be about something, there will always be someone else even loopier than you. It's hard to impress girls under those circumstances.

For those keeping score at home, your press corpse once again failed to ask Scott McClellan about the smoking memo at Friday's press briefing. I'm sure they'll get around to it eventually; it's only been two @(&%@$! weeks since the thing was published.