Twinkies

Israel may be on the brink of a full-scale war. Our economy may fall off the fiscal cliff. But thing in the headlines most troubling to too many people seems to be the demise of Hostess Twinkies.

Personally I have never been much of a Twinkies fan. I have always preferred Drakes’ Devil Dogs, Ring Dings and my favorite: Yodels.

Chocolate is my drug of choice. There has never been anything about me but for my skin tone that could ever be described as vanilla. And I have never heard of anyone ever referring to themselves as a vanilla-holic—Hallmark does not create a line of cards dedicated to vanilla lovers.

So while I am genuinely sad for the now unemployed Hostess workers, maybe it’s time they switched teams to make Ring Dings instead. Likewise the Republicans will have to surrender to the fact that to keep the country from falling off the fiscal cliff they might have to sail on the Democratic ship and raise taxes for the most wealthy of Americans.

Because the truth of the matter is, inside and outside of the snack world, vanilla does not rule.