The past few weeks have been busy despite the fact that every day is pretty much the same, what with the Groundhog Day-like cycle of sleeping, crying, burping, eating and pooping. And then there’s the baby. OMG! The good thing about being awake at odd hours, aside from being mesmerized by THE CUTEST BABY EVER, is that I’ve been able to catch almost every Olympic event possible. And even if I miss one it will be on again in like an hour. And I’ll be all, didn’t I just see this? Or is it because I’m a precog?

Naturally my favorite event has been the Women’s Skeleton competition, otherwise known as I’m Trying to Kill Myself. What’s next, jumping off tall buildings? The gold medal goes to the athlete who’s most dead?

In fact I’ve been paying so much attention to the happenings in Sochi that I almost missed what’s going on in that scandal-ridden Texas Lite Gov Republican primary. Apparently at one point in his life State Sen. Dan Patrick was almost human and it’s coming back to haunt him. As the Dallas Morning News reported this week, Patrick, the anti-immigrant zealot from Crazytown, once hired a handful of unauthorized immigrants at his sports bar as cooks and dishwashers in the mid-1980s although he only “vaguely” recalls that. In Patrick’s defense, who remembers what they did in the mid-80s? (Except me. I remember everything and I still hold grudges. You know who you are.) Patrick would’ve gotten away with it too, if not for Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson’s oppo research and Miguel “Mike” Andrade from Mexico. Andrade confirmed that Patrick was well aware of his illegal status and that of his cousin and two other men.

“He was real, real, real kind with us…real good with the Hispanic community,” Andrade said. “He was really wishing (he had) some kind of power…to help us to work in this country and have a better life.” According to Andrade, who is now a U.S. citizen, Patrick wrote him a recommendation to help him with temporary residency. He also offered to help him visit his sick mom in Mexico at the time. Patrick called the allegation “simply preposterous” and argued that he’s never once “acted even remotely like a semi-decent person.”

He should bow out now before they unearth his team of illegal pregnant powerwashing nannies.

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