Wednesday, August 25, 2010

She’s inspired

Sydney is so pleased with this offhand phone camera portrait, believing she looks both thoughtful and knowing, that she is inspired to write a book, just so this can appear on the jacket.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Obama vacation: Give the guy a break already

I hope the president isn’t listening to criticism of his vacation. Favorable comparisons against Bush’s long weeks of brush clearing at Crawford can’t be admitted by the Right because, after all, the Cape Cod vacation fits the “Obama as elitist dilettante” narrative. Until tomorrow. Then he might be a Chicago thug if that description would fuel the conflagration better in the circumstance.

Determined critics simply will not be pleased. Not if Obama swore off leisure time for the balance of his term. Heck, I don’t think some people would be mollified if we passed a law that required him to stay in the Oval Office 24 hours a day in a 4’ x 4’ cage sitting at a school desk.