There's an old song from a simpler time, a vaudeville tune that got a laugh from a contradiction: "Yes, We Have No Bananas." It was funny because it was absurd. Today, that same joke is back, but it's not wearing a comedy costume. It's wearing a suit and carrying a government clipboard, and the laugh it's getting is from the devil himself. The contradiction is the promise of a socialist paradise in a world where, as the American Thinker so aptly put it, "The numbers have no political affiliation."