asp

The asps — not snakes, she quickly corrects — are allegedly defanged and thus safe for her latest showcase.

Did she die by clasping an asp to her cleavage?

Sourdi’s family shield carried the sign of the asp, a venomous snake, which in Latin is “anguis.”

Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, poisoned herself with an asp, according to popular belief.

Both of those things are true, but neither is anywhere close to sufficient — and when it comes to Coulter, O people of the leftward spectrum, remember this piece of ancient wisdom: Don’t kiss the asp.