I’ve been asked why I used the Twinkie metaphor in my column this week. It’s because I think Twinkies personify what has happened to America. We no longer get homemade cake from mom’s comfy kitchen. We get Twinkies…pure plastic and chemicals formed to imitate what a real cake once looked like. Twinkies…the cake with a shelf life longer than the sun’s life expectancy. It’s the Britany Spears of fast desserts.