Uniting the races, one cookie at a time

by Turtle MacBride

Oreo has introduced the triple-double: three layers of cookie wafer with vanilla between one set of the cookies and chocolate between the other set.

Comments range from "symbolic of uniting the races," to "another contribution to obesity, women and minorities most at risk."

Senate Democrats are said to be preparing to tax the cookie, in order to lower the rate of increase in the federal deficit. While President Obama's advisors have said, off the record, first we have the millionaires and the billionaires, then the corporate jets, and now this.

In Texas, Rick Perry is reported as saying that any tax on free-market cookies would be treason. While in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney denies that the Mormon church has ever opposed uniting vanilla and chocolate in one cookie.