Well, I made it to the bottom of the 4th before I was forced to get up and put the radio on and mute the TV. That's longer than usual.
With the current debate going on in our country right now about the President's possible issuance of an executive order that would force companies which contract with the government to disclose all of their donations--and the subsequent petitioning of the Prez by good government groups to go further and ban all political spending by government contractors--and connected to the Phillies' wearing of a small round patch on their breasts memorializing some former owners, I have a modest proposal.
Let's pass a law that says that any government official which receives a fixed amount (5 percent, 10 percent?) of money from a particular company or industry must wear a small logo of that company or industry on his/her suit jacket in a visible location whenever that pol appears on TV or in public. The aesthetic effect would be the same as the Phillies' jerseys right now, which you can see by tuning in to Comcast SportsNet as I type (or most any other night).
Would our policies have been different if Dick Cheney had had a Haliburton logo on his weak chest whenever he was on television from 2001 to 2009? I don't know, but it would be harder for our media to ignore his conflicts of interest while overseeing our wars in the Middle East and devising our energy policy, attention that is sorely needed. It might also make it a little tougher for the Obama administration to discuss their weak-to-negligent financial regulatory policies when every person in the White House is walking around with a Goldman Sachs logo over their hearts (maybe we can write into the law that anyone who uses more than 40 percent of their campaign money from a single source has to have that logo tattooed on his or her forehead).
It is now the bottom of the 5th inning, the Phils are winning 2-0 over the Mets, and I am being naughty by drinking a soda. Those aren't good for you, you know.
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