Easter Sunday Pudding

Baby Bro dropped off the banana pudding. Had to take a bite before the guests arrived.

Santa Monica Pier

Sky over the Pier before it started raining everyday for no damn reason.

Mister President

Barack Hussein Obama renewed his oath of office at midday Monday, ceremonially marking the beginning of another four years in the White House and firmly embracing a progressive agenda centered on equality and opportunity.

The Presidential Force...

Sorry for the title but I couldn't help myself. On a day when one of the most bizarre non-news stories ever breaks... It's good to laugh... at other non-news stories that are real stories.

The White House recently responded to an online petition to build an actual Death Star like this:

The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:

  • The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
  • The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
  • Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?

The rest is even funnier if you're a Star Wars fan. And since this hangs in my office, I guess I am.

President Barack Obama uses a Star Wars light saber as he parries with fencer Tim Morehouse during the U.S. Olympians youth sporting event on the South Lawn of the White House, Sept. 16, 2009.

President Barack Obama uses a Star Wars light saber as he parries with fencer Tim Morehouse during the U.S. Olympians youth sporting event on the South Lawn of the White House, Sept. 16, 2009.

 

Oh... and probably the best fanboy response came from the Star Wars blog:

“It is doubtless that such a technological terror in the hands of so primitive a world would be used to upset the peace and sanctity of the citizens of the Galactic Empire,“ said Governor Wilhuff Tarkin of the Outer Rim Territories. “Such destructive power can only be wielded to protect and defend by so enlightened a leader as Emperor Palpatine.”

Henceforward Shall Be Free

A new US stamp commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, which President Abraham Lincoln signed on January 1, 1863, freeing all slaves in the rebel Confederate states.

The stamp was created by art director Antonio Alcalá and graphic designer Gail Anderson. To evoke the typography of Civil War era 'broadsides' (printed flyposters often proclaiming public meetings or used for announcements), the pair worked with Hatch Show Print in Nashville, one of the oldest working letterpress printshops in the US.