One journalist remarked to me,
“How in the world can these senators
walk around here upright when
they have no backbone?”
— from Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown’s February 5 New York Times Op-Ed article
Amphibians are vertebrates. This means,
although you may imagine otherwise,
that toads, though lumpy, do have spines,
unlike the human species we call toadies,
famous for their lack of backbone, as well
as for licking boots and presidential
bottoms, as evidenced, for fresh example,
by Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell.
