This Daily Show nugget is hilarious, especially when Jason describes the date as Hope Day 1. I may just keep up that new calendar system – at least until the left turns on Obama. And oh, yes. That will happen.
But in the meantime, I’ll celebrate the new Age of Plenty by reading what my betters in the mainstream media want me to read.
Having a “Black first family ‘changes everything.’” Not since Cosby has been on television has there been a black family that could serve as a role model for kids today. Well, maybe not. When you get waaay down to the end of the article, you find the simple truth: “‘It’s not new, but it appears new,” she says. “The president and his wife and children are not a novelty in the African-American community.’” Wait – you mean there’s been a black middle class and professional class all along? The deuce you say! I wonder why the media and Hollywood don’t ever show it. In any event, the Obama girls are adorable and I hope they enjoy their new home – until 2012. 
And it’s nice to know that the right isn’t going to treat them the way the graceless, classless left treated the Bush girls.
Bill Gates – the hypocrite who supports the death tax, yet shelters his own money from it – is going to save us by eradicating polio. Was this his “I pledge” moment? It goes largely unsaid that the Rotary has been on this for decades and nobody cared, but now “Bill Gates is joining the UK and German governments in a big initiative.” Well, Rotary wasn’t doing it in order to receive credit, but it does peg out my cynicism meter. Bill Gates is now pledging $185 million – the Rotary had given that much by 2005 and a lot more since then. A little credit where it’s due would be nice.
Lost and found – an ammo box found after Ike contains some interesting treasures. Lesson of the day – if you live in a hurricane zone, whether or not you’re a gun owner, having a few ammo boxes to store your photos and other treasures in isn’t a bad idea.
Taxes, shmaxes. I think demanding that the people in charge of writing and enforcing tax code live up to it themselves is a little over the top, don’t you? Besides, it’s nice to know that I can just “forget” to pay the rest of my tax bill and as long as it was an “unintentional” “avoidable” “mistake” (three lies for the price of one!) then the verdict will be “Eh, no biggie. Pay up and Move On(tm)!”
Home-based businesses aren’t exactly a new phenomenon – home pubs and brothels evidently flourished in ancient Greece.
(And then I spent fifteen minutes trying to track down the video or at least a transcript of the old SNL skit “vomitorium” because it was really funny and at least tangentially related, only to find out that was Rome, not Greece. And if the video is online, my Google-fu isn’t up to the task. Well, having blown all that time searching for the SNL skit, I guess I need to get back to work… )
