Lumpy hotel pillow: SMALLPOX ENCRUSTED BLANKETS
Flat soda: SCHISTSOMIASIS
French fries with insufficient salt: THE POTATO FAMINE
John Scalzi on why Sarah Palin is a) justified in saying HEY, LAY THE FUCK OFF; and b) exercising spectacularly bad taste along with zero sense of proportion for saying it by invoking the medieval “blood libel”.