Is Rick Santorum insane?

No, seriously, is he?

Here's a review of Santorum's odd behaviour at The Carpetbagger Report, which has some good links to recent stories on perhaps The Reaction's least favourite senator (well, he's down near the bottom -- no pun intended). And for those of you with a subscription to TNR (a must, in my view), here's a review of Santorum's soon-to-be-released book, It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good.

By the way, do any of you know what "santorum" means? It won the Most Outrageous Word award at this year's annual convention of the American Dialect Society. See here. It's dirty, but hilarious.