Obamboozled
A fortnight hence, President Obama made a guest appearance on one of my favorite television shows, MythBusters. The president gave Adam & Jamie a special assignment to work with a group of schoolchildren to put a myth to the test. I found it deliciously apropos that the myth President Obama asked the MythBusters to bust was the Archimedes heat ray… a myth MythBusters had busted conclusively before, not only once, but twice! That is Barack Hussein Obama's presidency in a nutshell: neither the "hope" nor the "change" he promised, only a recycling of the same tired ideas that have failed conclusively & spectacularly time & time again. Of course, for the third time out of three tests, the Archimedes heat ray was busted comprehensively & thoroughly. I thank our charlatan president for such striking, if specious, proof of his own failures.

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The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
Guster, "Donde Esta Santa Claus?" via iTunes (Mrs. Skeeter, Esq.)

Commentary: I'm persnickety, even during the holidays: the title should be "¿Donde Esta Santa Claus?", because Spanish requires an upside down question mark at the beginning of an inquisitive statement. I am also reminded of my Guster T-shirt, which is emblazoned (correctly), "¡Me gusta Guster!" At a deli in Old New Amsterdam, several years hence, the Spanish-speaking staff stared at the T-shirt in confusion & consternation until one of them asked me, in English, what "Guster" meant, or was supposed to mean, in Spanish. I explained that it was a proper noun from English, the name of a band.