Wow. Just Wow.

Dateline: Somewhere beyond the rings of Saturn. Rick Santorum, right-wingnut and head of a troubled 2006 Senate campaign in Pennsylvania, is now claiming that the Catholic Church abuse scandal in Boston can be blamed on the Massachussetts Institute of Technology.

Specifically, here's what Santorum wrote about the church pedophile scandal on a religious website called Catholic Online. ''When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political, and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm."

''It's an open secret that you have Harvard University and MIT that tend to tilt to the left in terms of academic biases," said Robert Traynham, the Santorum aide. ''I think that's what the senator was speaking to."

I think Sen. Santorum (R-Pluto) will find that folks at MIT are far too busy hosting Time Traveler Conventions than involving themselves in the workings of the Catholic Church.