This just in from the Maine Sunday Telegram: Yesterday, at the Maine Mall in South Portland, Amy Bouchard, of Wicked Whoopies, oversaw the construction of a whoopie that weighed a half-ton. And why, you might ask, did she do this? Why, to beat Pennsylvania’s 250-pound whoopie pie, which until then had been the largest whoopie pie in the known—and no doubt the unknown—world. 

We might have a governor whose idea of fun is to tear down murals and denigrate labor leaders such as Frances Perkins, who was FDR’s Secretary of Labor and made life better for many, many Americans. But we can at least make a giant whoopie pie and outdo Pennsylvania. 

All is not lost.