If there’s anyone out there who doesn’t believe there’s a God—consider this.

There’s only one big network not broadcasting Barack Obama’s infomercial tonight.

That network is ABC. They’re airing their usual program—“Pushing Daisies.”

That means that when I avoid Obama’s state of the art ego trip (paid for as it was by thousands of teeny little individual contributions from ordinary Americans named Mickey Mouse and Ben Dover) I get to watch the most entertaining show on TV. And millions of Americans who haven’t yet been absorbed by the Hive will get to discover it.

Surely this will lead to national renewal.



Here’s a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. that I memorized years ago. I consider it a perfect thing of its kind. (The version printed on Henry Ward Beecher’s Wikipedia page is less perfect, in my opinion, so I’ll transcribe it here as I remember it):

Said a great Congregational preacher

To a hen, “You’re a beautiful creature!”

And the hen—just for that—

Laid an egg in his hat.

And thus did the hen reward Beecher.

It seems to me that anyone who had the talent and cleverness to write that single verse would have no alternative to being blissfully happy forever.