"Failure Gene" Isolated?

A research breakthrough, as covered by the perceptive Andy Borowitz.  It apparently runs through the males in some families.  Let's hope that we develop immunity by 2016.

BONUS:  Esquire.com's Charles P. Pierce had this to say about Jeb!'s (a.k.a., John Ellis Bush) speech yesterday, which required temporary amnesia on the part of the listeners:

Jeb (!) is not about the past. Not him. He's especially not about that thin slice of the past that occurred during the years 2001-2009, when somebody Jeb (!) once met briefly was president of the United States and everything went to shit. Because Jeb (!) grew up in a small shoebox in the middle of the road, and is not one of the 'pampered elites.'

(I have to admit that this was the point where I expected his pants to ignite.)

BONUS II:  You can run, but maybe you can't hide (click on image to enlarge):

(Jim Morin, Miami Herald)