Just saw a bumper sticker that read “He’s not my President.”
I don’t care whether the driver was referring to President Bush or President Obama, either way he’s wrong.
The person who wins the election is the President of the entire United States not just the parts that voted for him or her.
You don’t have to like him. You don’t have to agree with him. But, damn it, you do have to respect him or at least respect the office.
2 comments February 8th, 2010 Elliot
You know what’s really ridiculous?
Age checks on web sites.
I mean, no 12-year-old would ever lie about their birth dates, right?
3 comments February 5th, 2010 Elliot
The other day, I heard Olivia Newton John’s 1974 song I Honestly Love You and I was struck by an unpleasant realization about the following lyric:
If we both were born
In another place and time
This moment might be ending in a kiss
But there you are with yours
And here I am with mine
So I guess we'll just be leaving it at this
I love you
I honestly love you
I honestly love you
Who would even write that lyric, today? The song assumes that it’s bad luck to meet your soulmate after you’re already married to someone else.
But, in an era where people get divorced just because they might be a little bit bored, hardly anyone would think it’s a crime to divorce the poor sap you’re married to if you happened to run into someone you like better.
Sigh.
I really am getting old.
Add comment February 3rd, 2010 Elliot
via Compound LJ001 Acts Like Antibiotic Against Viruses.
For all the complexity of the diseases they cause, viruses are very simple; just a bunch of DNA in a lipid sack. LJ001 attacks that lipid sack, as well as the lipid membrane of healthy cells. But whereas the healthy cells can easily repair the damage, the inert viruses simply fall apart.
1 comment February 2nd, 2010 Elliot
And it makes me sort of sad that the strip’s creator, Bill Watterson, doesn’t seem to miss them (or us) very much at all.
1 comment February 1st, 2010 Elliot
I saw the Milwaukee Rep’s production of almost, maine, yesterday.
It was very pleasant. The writing was predictable, but the acting was professional and the situations were sweet.
Definitely recommended as a different sort of date to take your darling on for Valentine’s Day.
Add comment February 1st, 2010 Elliot
Because I simply can’t find one that defines “bipartisan” as “just shut up and buy into everything my party wants to do.”
19 comments February 1st, 2010 Elliot
Obama’s 2010 budget deficit soars to record $1.56 trillion in 2010.
Add comment February 1st, 2010 Elliot
I’m very pleased that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is rethinking it’s opposition to a concealed carry law in Wisconsin.
I’m less thrilled that they think we need to make some sort of deal in order to exercise our Constitutional rights.
(And honestly, I don’t trust that they wouldn’t make it nearly impossible for your average citizen to get a permit while making it clearly illegal to carry a gun without one.)
Add comment January 31st, 2010 Elliot
…because the word “pad” can also refer to a sanitary napkin, I think you should consider growing up.
The iPad is clearly named after a writing “pad.”
But it’s also a name that invokes the possibilities of a launch pad.
Or a place to keep all your stuff like a bachelor pad.
And it’s fairly appropriate for a device that is actually operated with the pads of your fingers.
I might not end up buying an iPad, but I’m definitely not buying that the name is fatally flawed because of its resemblance to the name of a certain feminine product.
(On the other hand, if it was called the iDouche, I think I’d have an entirely different reaction.)
3 comments January 30th, 2010 Elliot
