An ethnic Arab girl wins Miss America and some people--people with too little to do, go bonkers.

First of all, its remarkable that beauty pageants still exist, much less that people are still interested in watching them, but secondly--and I know this from personal experience--all beauty pageants, from the one they may or may not run in your home town, to Miss America and every other one you may have heard of--are all rigged.

Yep. Every single one of them.

The rigging is as innocuous as the subjective tastes of the judges to more egregious forms involving money, sex and politics. I frankly can't imagine anymore more demeaning to a young woman that slavishly remaking herself to suit the tastes of pageant officials, and paying for the privilege?

It occurs to me though that some conservative commentators don't appreciate the irony of the pick. There simply can't be anything more remote from radical Islam than an Arab beauty pageant winner. On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if some Mullah declares a fatwa on Donald Trump for offending the honor of Muslim women.

Just ignore these chowder heads.