Talk about leading by example....

Oy gevalt!

Can we just acknowledge how incredibly consistent Republicans are? To the point of inadvertent comedy, even? This is the party that lobbied for years to destroy the National Endowment for the Arts (and which is probably just biding its time before bringing that up again), and now its noisome reps see fit to criticize the Obamas for … guess what? Supporting the arts.


Specifically, in this case, for going to the theater. Barack and Michelle go to Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, the masterpiece of one of America’s most celebrated playwrights and chroniclers of the African-American experience, and apparently that’s a slap in the face to everybody who’s out of work.

Lordy. This from the people whose erstwhile darling boy spent more time on vacation (by far) than any previous president.

All right. End of jeremiad. Thank you, Gordon Romei, for alerting me to this new divertissement. The comedy continues…

I heart me some Arianna

Okay, so The Huffington Post may not be what you’d want to call impartial. But its front page for today warms my cockles. In an article titled “3 Days of Undoing Bush,” a partial list of Obama’s activities includes:

Signs order to close Guantanamo

Shutters CIA “Black Site” prisons

Forbids torture of detainees

Lifts abortion “gag rule”

Freezes proposals on easing emissions

Revives Freedom of Information Act

Not bad for his first half a week on the job.

Remember the first thing his predecessor did? Went on vacation. Yes that's right.

And all right, I’ve mostly forgiven Obama for that offensive faux pas with fag-bashing hypocrite Rick Warren. The spectacle of that bigot pretending to grace Obama's inaguration with Christian love almost made me forego the rest of it. Glad I persevered.

But that's another post, isn't it.

Thank you Buchino for alerting me to the Huffington cover story.

Whew!

Breaking news: THERE IS A GOD, after all.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the 44th President of the United States of America.