Things I only recently learned include that the President
of the United States, Barack Obama, is a left-handed person. My oldest
younger sister, Evan, is also a left-handed person. My sister Evan, however, is
not
Barack Obama. I make that distinction for those of the ‘Fox News Channel is my
primary source of information’ persuasion as their ability to reduce
coincidence to cosmic certainty and then unshakeable (and often unspeakable)
truth amazes me on a regular basis.
As part of the White House’s Annual Easter Roll
festivities (and you thought they didn’t have Easter in Kenya, didn’t you? Live
and learn, pilgrim) it was the President and Maurice Sendak, standing together
yet alone, as bees decided to participate in the President’s reading of
Where the Wild Things Are.
I suspect all the Easter quilting and spelling activities
were overbooked and the gathering on the lawn of the White House on Monday was
a target of opportunity (or another attempt by Jerry
Seinfeld to bolster interest in his cinematic excursion. In that
case, well-played, Sir!).
Mr. Obama who has spent nearly seven years wrangling with
members of Congress (both of his own and
the other party) sometimes most resembling herding cats, by all accounts acquitted
himself well in both reading the story and keeping the children safe.
There was some disappointment in that outcome I suspect
for George Will, who probably had at the
ready an anecdote about how Ronald Reagan invented the honey bee during the
Middle Class Jelly Bean Gilded Age that occurred only in his mind after the
bow-tie over-tightening created an oxygen shortage to his brain. I remain at a
loss to explain Chris Matthews’ continuing delusions and histrionics as he so
often has open neck shirts. Perhaps a bee sting where he sits down?
Anyway. UN
Bee-Keepers arrived in short order, restoring order and imposing
triple-parking on the narrow streets leading to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue while covering
the East Lawn in their blue helmets which seemed to thrill both Messrs. Schmidt (didja
see what I did there?) and Kohl.
-bill kenny
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