Mexican jumping bean

“Threats and temper tantrums are no way to negotiate foreign policy,” she said, mad as a Mexican jumping bean on a hot sidewalk.

Watching Senate Democrats high-stepping and hopping around like a bunch of Mexican jumping beans in a hot skillet this week sure has been hilarious — if not entirely illuminating.

It wasn’t trickery, but an odd twist in the natural world that creates the novelty of “Mexican jumping beans.”

Perhaps most unexpected will be a look at how the artist worked closely with others, as he did with the painter Philip Pearlstein on an unfinished children’s book about a Mexican jumping bean.

Bean Dreams is a fun, simple platformer on your iPhone in which you play a Mexican jumping bean that can't stop jumping; this frees your thumbs up to only move your character left or right.