There’s a PowerPoint making its rounds called “Engrish,” a series of pictures taken in Japan of misused English (there’s also a site called www.Engrish.com). One slide shows the picture of a sign indicating the entrance to an “Erection Deck,” so I guess today is “Erection Day.” This may well be the perfect moniker for the process–for all the good that voting does in creating misdirection and gridlock.
I’m beginning to believe that the incoming president should serve six years and Senate elections should be held to coincide. The president gets his or her six terms, and the Senate stands for reelection when that presidency ends. (House elections, being every two years, could continue in that direction.) Thereby, a presidential victor could even carry with him (or her, so long as she’s not Hillary) a mandate and a Congress to carry out his or her program. That would put an end to paranoia in governing, but on the other hand it could lead to massive and unwanted change in American life. Can you imagine Hillarycare? How ’bout an end to gun ownership? Could happen. Smoking outlawed? Not far behind, maybe even ahead. Nationalization and total secularization of all education? You betcha.
On second thought, hie me to the Erection Deck. Things have to be looking up there.
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