"Certification? I Don't Need No Stinkin' Certification"

Kentucky Rethug / New Confederate Party Senate candidate Rand "The Sprinklerhead" Paul likes to tell people he's a "board-certified" ophthalmologist. Welllll, not quite. He's apparently not certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology, the official licensing board for doctors of ophthalmology. But wait, he is certified by something called the "National Board of Ophthalmology," which he operates himself. So he's self-certified. My, my, nice work if you can get it. As Salon's Joe Conason puts it,

"Libertarian ideology rejects most of the modern regulatory systems that protect consumers, because everyone should be responsible for determining whether the hamburger contains E. coli on his own. But does that do-it-yourself dogma apply to the regulation of medicine, too? If you're Dr. Rand Paul, practicing ophthalmologist, the answer is emphatically yes."

As a result, Hackwhackers may decide to drop this blogging gig, and set up a certification board for ice cream. Despite our limited experience, we think we can get some ice cream companies to get their ice cream "certified" by us. Pretty sweet.

(photo: The Sprinklerhead: both self-certified and certifiably loony)