Potassium Propeller Beanie for Respected Irrationality in Public Life

I am proud to have suggested this so-obvious-it’s-invisible category, although the chemistry nerd in me might quibble with “potassium.” (It does include the word “ass,” though, which redeems it for literary reasons.)

@IanJ: I had to use something other than Platinum, which is reserved for lifetime achievement er, Pampers. My head hurts.

And to satisfy the chemistry nerd in you:

The gritty material on the side of a match-box is coated with red phosphorus. The match-head contains potassium chlorate and some red coloring. When the match-head rubs against the box, friction ignites the mixture of phosphorus and potassium chlorate.

So perhaps I should have chosen phosphorus instead of potassium, but the idea was that the propeller beanie blows up, which was appropriate to the category.

Yes, I really did research this beforehand.

Politi-Good GOPer Truth.

@nojo: Oh, well if you wanted propeller beanie blows up, then potassium is a fine choice. It actually oxidizes quite quickly in the presence of water in the air (particularly, say, flop-sweat on a brow), basically the same way sodium does. Foom, and instant severe burns. Yay!

Krauthammer is certifiable at this point.

@IanJ: You can make candles light spontainiously with that and a quick-drying chemical whose name escapes me for a moment. I learned about it in a graduate stagecraft class.

Oh dear God, I turn my back and it turns into a geek-off. (And yes, Catt, I am including you.)

I must say, I’m missing George Will.