U.S. Senator and septuagenarian Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) was a much-loved presence on Twitter, thanks to offbeat musings left refreshingly unpasteurized by PR hacks, political whips and the responses of haters. They eventually got to him, unfortunately, and he hasn't posted anything interesting in weeks. Buzzfeed's John Stanton interviewed him and found him sadly on-message: "I try to be more policy-oriented now than I used to be, not every little personal thing."

  • http://twitter.com/WoodyPfister Woody Pfister

    Bhqatever!

  • SnarKatestic

    All the February UNI basketball stuff was plenty embarrassing, though.  When I attended the University of Northern Iowa, I had a friend who suggested that some people get asterisks on their diplomas, signifying that, yes, they did graduate, but please not to assume they were at the same caliber as the rest of us.  I forgot about these words for years, until I discovered Senator Grassley’s Twitter account.