A campaign diet is one of those contradiction in terms.

There may be times when you wake up at 10 in the morning, with a crumpled up Burger King receipt in one hand, a MBTA conductor's hat that is certainly not yours in the other, and little idea how you made it home the night before. (Or maybe that's just the Lit Drop. Well. Moving on...)

Let's face it: Not everybody can be Dennis Kucinich, armed with oatmeal, hummus, and a hot British woman for a wife.

So it's in this spirit that the Lit Drop points to a blog post by Ken Levine, who has written for "MASH," "Frasier" and "the Simpsons."

What does writing a half-hour comedy have to do with working on a campaign trail? A lot, probably: "August is when most of the half-hour comedies go back into production. For writing staffs that means long hours, Lexapro, and eating your next 450 meals out of Styrofoam."

So check it out. And see if you agree with the note that "KFC = ICU."