Did you ever wonder if people who say You can’t judge a book by its cover actually read books? If you can’t judge a book by its cover, how do you know which damn book to buy?

Before Amazon and Kindle, all you had to do to pick out a book was browse the shelves at your local Barnes & Noble for a cover that caught your eye.

If you read enough, you got pretty good at judging books by their covers.

To a large extent, the same is true of people. If you pay attention, you start to notice patterns among people, patterns which differ dramatically between men and women, but are usually reliable predictors of behavior within genders.

One thing I’ve noticed is the correlation between men’s chins and the strength of their character. No one has a weaker (nonexistent) chin than Mitch McConnell, who almost single handedly defines that characteristic.

Mitch’s chin is about to pop out of the back of his neck. Jay Leno, on the other hand has a monstrous chin, but he may be an exception to the rule.

When President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill Antonin Scalia’s spot on the Supreme Court in 2016, he seemed like a good choice.

Garland garnered bipartisan support for his nomination to the U.S. Appellate Court in 1997 and was well regarded around Washington.

Then again, you gotta wonder about anyone Mitch McConnell likes. Or liked, as the plot unfolded.

Garland never got his shot at SCOTUS because Moscow Mitch said a president with only 10 months to go in his second term should not get to pick a Supreme Court justice.

If you’re trying to square that with the way Mitch blasted lying liar Amy Coney Barrett through confirmation hearings AFTER voting in the 2020 election had already started, don’t bother.

It’s his (lack of) chin talking.

Back in 2016, Garland was a compromise nomination, someone Democratic strategists thought they might be able to squeak past Repugnant obstructionists.

Obviously, they were wrong about that, but Garland was no superstar. He had probably reached the pinnacle of his abilities as chief judge of the appellate court.

Not a great chin.

As a Supreme Court justice, Garland would’ve been a White version of the idea-challenged Clarence Thomas, minus, of course, the overbearing, backward thinking, fundamental, evangelist wife.

Garland’s a team player and, as such, he needs a team on which to play. As head of the Justice Department, he may be in over his head.

Just look at his chin. No Kirk Douglas, no Burt Lancaster.

A year after a violent attempt to overthrow our government, Garland had done little more than saber rattling. No big charges, not much jail time.

America cries out for justice and delaying it is denying it.

This week, the one-eyed douchebag, Stewart Rhodes (who shot himself in the eye in 1993) was charged with sedition, an actual charge, albeit one with a high bar.

Before we start celebrating, let’s see where this goes.

Somewhere in Washington, DC there’s got to be a competent plastic surgeon who can give our AG an intimidating chin implant.

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