Anywho, it’s onSportd and downSportd to Gerald Posner’s “exclusive” book excerpt about

Anywho, it’s onSportd and downSportd to Gerald Posner’s “exclusive” book excerpt about how the Saudis have their oil empire rigged to — yikes! — “self-destruct”:

“Based on National Security Agency electronic intercepts, the Saudi Arabian government has in place a nationwide, self-destruction explosive system composed of conventional explosives and dirty bombs strategically placed at the Kingdom’s key oil ports, pipelines, pumping stations, storage tanks, offshore platforms, and backup facilities. If activated, the bombs would destroy the infrastructure of the world’s largest oil supplier, and leave the country a contaminated nuclear wasteland ensuring that the Kingdom’s oil would be unusable to anyone. The NSA file is dubbed internally Petro SE, for petroleum scorched earth.”

Yes, the Saudis are primed to bomb themselves, and turn their country into a nuclear wasteland — but that’s only when holding their collective breath until they turn blue doesn’t work.

Puh-leeeze! Are we supposed to read this with a straight face? But perhaps this Gotterdammerung scenario is a metaphor for the fate of the Huffington Post itself. If it doesn’t succeed — that is, if the idea of Hollywood airheads (most of whom I confess to never having heard of) nattering on about nothing ad infinitum causes us all to go back to bed and pull the covers over our heads, as it ought to — rumor has it that Arianna’s head (which is already puffed up beyond human ken) is rigged to explode, along with the empty heads of her “columnists.”