Roxie and I filled up today.  Can you see the three cuties in the car next to us?  They do give out doggie biscuits to hungry customers.

I like a number of things about Stephen Colbert.  He’s cute, bold, funny, ironic, very smart, and seems to be a practicing but thinking church-goer. (Gee, if I were looking for a boyfriend, that is how I would describe him!)

I will miss watching his re-pour.  I don’t watch late night, but I can catch him online at a more convenient time, I’m sure. I have admired a number of his very bold and ironic remarks.

The Colbert Report regularly satirized the George W. Bush Administration and the White House Press Corps with such lines as:

“ I stand by this man. I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message, that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound – with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world.”

Until he came along, I was, as is well-documented, a sucker for a man in a uniform. Smirks, not so much.

I guess I’m over it now though, thank you very much, Mr. Bush.

Never much liked action toys, though.

(Naval aviator?  I don’t think so.)

Or bobble heads.

But I might get me one of these:

But here’s how:

But why, when you can afford the world’s best wigs or transplants, would you risk this:

And I don’t even want to think about what he looks like when he gets up in the morning.  Of course, maybe he sleeps in a hairnet, another charming thought.  Have any studies been done to address what inhaling too much hair spray does to one’s decision-making abilities?

I read it online most days.  Also often read the WSJ and the Washington Post, but I have a particular affinity for the NYT.  I sometimes feel compelled to shoot them a comment, and from time to time they publish them.  There was a long article today about the 14th Amendment and the birthright citizenship issue.  I wrote and they published:

It’s interesting that, although many question President Obama’s citizenship, no one seems to question John McCain’s — he was born in Panama, or Ted Cruz’s — he was born in Canada. In these three cases, they all were born U.S. citizens for different reasons. There is no easy answer to the Anchor Baby dilemma, but I can tell you this, if I were a pregnant woman in Juarez, I would do whatever it took to get across that river. ”

It might smell as sweet if it were called Caelbran Isildur, but no one would like it very much.

This is the name recently given to a newborn, according to my local newspaper this morning.  Seriously.  I had to argue with spell check for several minutes to be allowed even to type it.  Maybe for short this child will be called Kale, a very popular vegetable right now.

I’m sure I should have known the allusions, but I had to google them.

Isildur is a character in The Hobbit.  Wiki says  Isildur was a Dúnadan of Númenor, the elder son of Elendil, High King of the Realms in Exile. He was briefly the second king of Gondor and Arnor.

He can get an action toy who shares his name.

And a tee shirt.

All righty then.

And Caelbran, spelled a slightly different way, is a boy in the Star Wars series.

I don’t know why I continue to be drawn to reading these lists of newborn babies’ names.

My personal favorite this morning is Violet Mary.