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Inauguration Flashback: Bush Jacked

February 18, 2005 09:24 AM

Somehow missing the entire point of blogging, Cavalry Charge finally gets around to writing about his encounter with the President at the Ohio Ball after the Inauguration. Yeah, it was a month ago -- but still, has a few good points on how an event should be staged:

POTUS must never see a site coordinator with a clipboard. That's a sign of weak advance. The social flavor of the encounter musn't be overpowered by a prevailing sense that this handshake has been pre-hearsed or staged, or even considered in passing in any way, by anyone. [...] Go Time: Enter POTUS-- wide grinned, long-strided like, Laura just behind. Looking jacked, either muscled or kevlared up, I wasn't sure. Presidential seal on the tux-shirt studs? Check. Bit much, perhaps, but this guy likes his job. And he had recently been rehired.

No word on Presidential Seal-adorned boxers. —C.S.

The 55th Inauguration [Cavalry Charge]

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Your Father's Day Nice Things Is Just Ugly Ties All The Way Down

Caution: There WILL be dad jokes.

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'Miga and Carlos' by Wonkette Operative 'Chica'

It's Father's Day, which means it's time for Yr Dok Zoom and his son to go to brunch and check out the downtown Boise Father's Day Car Show so we can ooh and ah over the very same Corvettes 'n' Mustangs 'n' lovingly-restored classic cars that are there every year, and I will probably once again point at the '68 Beetle converted to run on electricity and say, "Oh look, a Voltswagen!" Traditions matter. (Kid Zoom is 22, so I may also/instead meet him for cocktails later like grown up human people.)

Don't worry about any deep thoughts on the Meaning of Fatherhood here -- we're just going to enjoy the goofy side of dadding, which as far as I'm concerned is the best thing I've done with my time. Especially since my role model for parenting was the unnamed Dad from "Calvin and Hobbes."

As any fool knows, ice rises to the top of liquids because it's cold, and just wants to be closer to the sun so it can warm up. It's all in the book you get when you become a father.

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