Veeps, Fieger, ashes and a primate boss.
Random thoughts:
* With nothing more to be done about the presidential nominations, politics now turns to the theater of the absurd, i.e., who should Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama select as a vice presidential running mates?
I recently have notified both candidates that if nominated I will not run and if elected I will not serve. (I think a few folks have said that once or twice before. The first rule of journalism, however, is that if you steal a quote from one person, it's plagiarism. If you steal quotes from a lot of people, it's considered "research.")
Well, I might consider an offer from McCain. After all he was a Naval officer and I always will be a U. S. Marine. But the first time he refers to me as a "sea-going bellhop" I'll drop him like a two-foot putt.
Actually, I could care less about veep candidates in both parties. It's sorta like being the stand-in behind an All-Pro quarterback. You only get in for a play or two if he breaks a shoelace.
Funniest line I can remember about veeps was when Dandy Dan Quayle was stand-in for George H. W. Bush. The joke then was that if something happened to Bush, Secret Service orders were to shoot Quayle.
*Can you believe that attorney Geoff Feiger was acquitted of that federal rap by convincing the jury that he didn't realize that using "straw" donors to funnel campaign contributions to Democrat John Edwards four years ago was illegal?
Whatever happened to the mantra that they drum into aspiring young mouthpieces in law school that "Ignorance of the law is no excuse."?
Geoff markets himself the smartest lawyer on the planet. With air-headed jurors like that bunch, it's no wonder he believes his own TV ads.
*Nursing home humor:
While I was pushing an elderly lady's wheel chair down to lunch the other day, she informed me that her husband had died and that "he" was in the columbarium (cremation repository) at a large Grosse Pointe church.
"Sure, I miss him," she offered, "but this is the first time in our marriage that I always know where he is."
* A Hindu monkey god known for strength and valor has been named official chairman of a Tech and Management Institute in India. He's been given an incense-cleansed office with a desk and a laptop and visitors must remove their shoes. I would not suggest sharing this news with your boss tomorrow.
