President Obama asked Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas to become his nominee for secretary of health and human services, after his first pick, Tom Daschle, resigned from consideration for that post, due to a very embarrassing tax “woopsie!”
Okay ladies, Remember Mr. Most Popular in junior high school? (I do. Paul Gill. Marine Park Junior High, P.S. 278, Brooklyn, NY.) Remember how he asked you to dance, but not until the other, more popular girls turned him down? So…? Dance with Mr. Most Popular, and to heck with being last choice? Or decide that it isn’t worth being last choice, and take yourself and your pathetic wounded pride over to the punch bowl, and do that “pretend to stare at a faraway object,” so that everyone thinks you are really engrossed in some deep thoughts, like, maybe about some Herman Hesse novel you are reading, and that you couldn’t care less about some dumb dance with Paul Gill, Mr. Most Popular. Well, Kathleen Sebelius chucked the idea of the lonely visit to the punch bowl and is going to boogie with Barak. Well, I certainly hope he doesn’t treat her bad again. And if he does, I hope she chooses the punch bowl. Then at least, I won’t be in that lonely corner all by myself. In the meantime, even though you may not hear it, the soundtrack to this post, is “Last Dance” by Donna Summer. Feel free to shake your booty! And maybe, in the future, I will tell you the true and humiliating story of my one dance with Paul Gill, Mr. Most Popular. Decades later, I still cringe with humiliation.
Below is a cartoon I did when Sibelius’s name was in circulation for the slot of Vice President. P.S. isn’t it cute that I misspelled her name and the proofreader at the Independent missed it?!? Did I tell you that one of my cartoons went to print with the mispelled word: “protitute? Rhymes with: “what a hoot!”
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