U.S. Senator and septuagenarian Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) was a much-loved presence on Twitter, thanks to offbeat musings left refreshingly unpasteurized by PR hacks, political whips and the responses of haters. They eventually got to him, unfortunately, and he hasn’t posted anything interesting in weeks. Buzzfeed’s John Stanton interviewed him and found him sadly on-message: “I try to be more policy-oriented now than I used to be, not every little personal thing.”