Here's what the president's speech was like.
Some time ago, while trying to get shampoo out of my eye, I stuck my finger into my eye socket.
The tactile experience of an eyeball on one side of my forefinger and the orbit on the other was novel to say the least.
As I quickly withdrew my finger, terror
and panic
and dread
and pain raced through nerves I didn't know I had. At the same instant, I couldn't help but laugh--albeit carefully. The most painful wounds in
everyday life are self inflicted.
The difference between that event and the speech was that the latter went on and on and on for the better part of fifty minutes.
On the upside, it seems that the first lady has had a makeover. The CGI miracles produced by the folks at Industrial Light and Magic never fail to astound. (Although they couldn't save George Lucas from himself. Or us from Hayden Christensen. I mean, for God's sake. You spend a total of $228 million dollars on episodes II and III and you can't find anything in the budget for rehearsals?)