Each week, conservatives find a new way to answer Chubby Checker’s immortal question, “how low can you go?”

The sleaze of the GOP — and the Religious Right and MSM that enable them — is an ever-opening flower.

What can we do at this point but stare in awe, like Grant Williams at the end of The Incredible Shrinking Man, beholding the vastness of it all?

It’s not nice to brag, but I once got an A+ in Typing, back when typing was for typewriters. I simply cannot, however, write about this stuff as fast as it whizzes by.

The velocity of both scandals and scandalitos has today exceeded the capacity of reality-based man to fathom, let alone document, so I give you the late, lamented science-fiction writer Robert Sheckley’s short story, “A Wind Is Rising” as our last, best hope to put in perspective a world and a week where an anti-gay megachurch leader is outed by the gay hustler who sold him crystal meth, the President of the United States and the entire media machine lie through their teeth to twist a bungled joke about that failed President into an assault on the very institution its teller risked his life to serve in, the U.S. government says “bring it on” to U2 with a website that tells “How to Make a Nuclear Bomb.” Oh yeah, and the week began with drug-addict Rush Limbaugh lambasting Michael J. Fox both for taking not enough and taking too much of his Parkinson’s medication, and it ended with the GOP Congress shutting down the watchdog office that audited war profiteering and the resignation of yet another crooked Republican Congressman.

As a great man once said, it’s hard work. So, congrats to the hardworking folks at Crooks and Liars for managing to keep pace with the video stream of all this.

As for me, I’m sure I missed a dozen or so major scandals that — like the above — somehow aren’t as important as debunked rumors about Vince Foster’s death, the Whitewater deal, and Clinton’s White House travel office.