Egotists are us

So NYC mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner is asked a question by a voter who wants to know how he can lead a city administration and expect employees to behave in an ethical manner when he can't.  Watch this CNN video.

IMO the problem isn't that Anthony Weiner is a douche who can't control his fantasies, but that he's an egotistical, self-centered ass who can't ever admit that he isn't the greatest thing since sliced bread.   He actually can't tell when he's gone off the rails.  As a result, he can't see the utter contempt that he attracts.  

New Yorkers don't have to settle this low for a mayor.  The rest of us also have our own collections of egotistical, self-centered politicians pandering for votes.  We shouldn't settle that low either.

In a related video, The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi tries selling a promising congressional candidate on going to Washington DC, despite its 535 obvious flaws.  The conclusion? 

"Washington is too gridlocked to attract the kind of results-oriented politicians we need to break the gridlock."

What's that? I can't hear you!

This website has some terrific reminders of what a variety of things used to sound like.   And thankfully, the list does NOT include a dial-up modem!

Just Hose Out The Car

Well, it's been a while since I posted here.  And a TV commercial inspired this one.

I'm watching TV, minding my own business, muting all the ads for an appalling range of drugs, and all of the sudden, I get sucked into an ad for a floor mat company.   It's a sneaky commercial, with cute little kids in the back seat of an upscale car.  Then there are images of laser devices measuring floor dimensions intermingled with shots of the cute kids dropping food and assorted other trash on the floor of the upscale car.   And mom is smiling.   A lot.

After a half a minute, I'm not sure what is being advertised.  Is it a car?   Is it some sort of sound system?  Kids with some newly discovered medical inability to hang onto stuff? 

It's a floor mat company (which I refuse to identify based on the fact that the ad made me angry).   The ad ends with the smiling mom hauling the custom made (and undoubtedly expensive) mats out of the car to hose them off.

So the message is it's easier to hose out your car than to teach your children to not be pigs and drop all their garbage on the floor of the car.  And that's what made me angry.