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[prog]

"So whaddaya think of your buddy Obama now?" asks dad.

He's clearly implying that Obama has recently done something horrible, but since I don't hate myself enough to keep up on myrightwingdad.net, I don't have any guesses what the new hotness is in that arena. So I say, "I don't know, what do I think of my buddy Obama now?"

"Heh heh heh", says dad, but mom says, "Hey, let's not talk about politics on vacation." And this is interesting because usually I'm the one to make that suggestion.

They're visiting on Sunday for a time period somewhat longer than the three-hour maximum exposure that classicaljunkie has identified, through repeated observation, as my personal limit. Whee. We'll see how it goes.

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[prog.livejournal.com]

That was actually my first guess but I suppose I was being hopeful that it's gone away already.

[popecrunch.livejournal.com]

Oh ha ha no. They're calling it 'Lipstickgate' in the latest drive to add -gate to a descriptor for every event (or, more commonly, nonevent) that occurs with either of the candidates, their hangers-on, families, pets, etc etc ad nauseum.

[mangosteen]

Fortunately, the "gotcha/gaffe politics" meme came up much earlier in the campaign, so at least there's a tool at the ready with which to say "People, can we cut out the fart jokes, just this once?"