Last night President Obama gave his State of the Union address which I was prepared to critique until I got this email: “How often should you wash your bath towels?” Okay, folks, not everyone is on the same page. I’m talking global politics and the state of my bathroom in one “fell swoop” (Act IV, Scene 3 Macbeth).
Somehow, my trusty political email vortex had been infiltrated by a penetrating question that I could not answer with a great deal of confidence. I assume you wash towels when dirty and that depends on how dirty you are. Well, “Today Home” says after three uses, wash it. End of story.
Regardless, the speech to me was noteworthy for how relaxed the President appeared to be…maybe his group was joking about bath towels before he came on stage? Secondly, he devoted very little rhetoric to anti-terrorism matters and more to climate change. Hey, climate change is a form of terrorism against our planet…maybe like washing bath towels too often. We are a nation of electronic dryers, three towels at a time in a march to deplete natural resources.
There is politics in everything and perhaps the State of the Union is the most political event in the US. Its annual message of “we have to put our differences aside and work together” was strong last night. Please think about it next time you do laundry.
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