Political Fashion Statement
As a man who wears the same sweatshirt five times a week to work where no one cares (if you're interested, it's the one I'm wearing in the drunken, bloated picture of me that Dave loves so much he put on the 103 SWashington party invite), I obviously have great credibility when it comes to fashion. With that said, I noticed something tonight (perhaps years behind everyone else). Every politician, every single one, wears an American flag pin on his/her lapel. Barak Obama was on the Daily Show last night and had one, then on the Colbert Report, Eliot Spitzer, running for governor of New York, had one. In 2004, both presidential candidates had one on almost the entire campaign, including all three debates. In fact, in one of the debates, Kerry and Bush, as much as they hated each other, were dressed almost exactly the same, as if they were twins with a lame-o mother. Blue suit, white shirt, red tie, plasticized hair, American flag lapel pin. Lame. Why don't they just wrap themselves in the flag, like sprinters at the Olympics? I think it's high time for politicians to stop trying to prove their patriotism with lapel pins and red, white, and blue clothing color schemes and instead prove their patriotism with support for public schools and civil rights and armor for the humvees in Iraq. I would be much more likely to vote for someone who forgoes the lapel pin but was truly patriotic than some phony with a metal flag on his chest. And that's the end of my rant.
On a non-patriotic theme, the Molson Canadian double label bottles are fantastic. One label is the regular Molson Canadian label, the other is something funny for the bar. For example, the one I'm drinking right now says "Your epidermis is showing." OK. I'm out like the Wutang Killer Bees on parole...
Tuesday, November 8 at 5:57 PM
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