for the last, oh, 8 years or so i’ve been primarily writing about weighty issues, like politics and economics and national security.
but now that barack steve obama is president-elect and the united states has re-joined the world community i can write about decidedly light-weight stuff, like toast.
i recently discovered this website:
http://toastalicious.com
it’s a celebration of all things toast. which might seem mundane, but, well, who doesn’t appreciate toast?
and who doesn’t appreciate that people devote time, love, and energy to making websites about their niche obsessions?
like toast.
or toasters.
to wit, there’s the:
http://www.toastermuseum.com/
this is actually pretty amazing, as the collection of old toasters is comprehensive and ingenious.
we’ve spent the last 8 years enduring the bush administration and we’ve spent the last 2 years slogging through the presidential nominations and then the election.
so let’s take a break and breathe deep and take a few minutes to look at pictures of toasters or perhaps learn about the etymology of ‘toast’.
and in lighthearted political news it was revealed today that the obama’s will be getting a non-allergenic dog from the dog pound to accompany them on their move to the white house.
i guess this was part of the deal that president elect obama made with his daughters.
that if he was elected president they’d get a puppy.
see, even though the world is still falling apart we can take a couple of minutes to think about non-allergenic puppies and the history of the toaster.
there’s nothing wrong with pound puppies and websites about toast.
we’ve all earned a brief respite, i think.
moby