Fruit bargler

...is a job that Colbert just made up for Benjamin Franklin's dad in a new segment called "Better Know a Founder". I have a profound respect for anyone who can make up funny shit out of thin air. It's one thing to riff away on what exists; it's another entirely to create a brand new word. Especially one that makes me laugh out loud the first time I hear it. "Bargler" qualifies.

He then interviewed Mr Franklin, asked him if he ever yakked it up with Washington and Adams over who had syphilis, and ended with thanking him for "taking time between wenching and drinking to talk to me".

I'm watching it now, and he just reminded Arianna Huffington that he's the "father of truthiness". Word.

And you can't argue with this logic re US involvement in a new civil war: "If we'd pulled out of our own civil war then we'd still have slaves. Why do you hate black people?"