It's Monday.

April 11th and the word of the day is Mumpsimus, which means an old idea or tradition that still gets followed despite being grossly unreasonable given today's knowledge.

Used in a sentence, Mumpsmus isn't dead, it's surely alive.

Right.

Amazing that they'd have a single word for all the stuff my dad thinks.

Weird.

Anyway, I'm no illusions.

I'm Heathunwright.

And broadcasting delayed from America's far center,

we are the Skeptocrats.

On episode 35, the Panama Papers make doing a political comedy show

unnecessarily complicated and researchy.

Indiana women seeking an abortion will have to answer these questions three.

Numerous forest critters will throw their official endorsement behind Bernie Sanders.

And a born naming choice by George Mason University comes back to bite them in the Antonine Scalia school.

But first, the Roundup. On the news wire tonight, Alaska Airlines announced plans to acquire Virgin American for $4 billion and

assuming the exchange rate hasn't changed since I looked this up on Saturday

that's approximately 15,103,599,99,950 shekels over the biblical requirement for virgins.

So it seems like a good deal for Branson.

But stuff doesn't count.

In fiscal policy, Donald Trump announced last week that he's got a plan to

eliminate the $19 trillion national debt within eight years. Huh. Involves some

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