It's happened

Having a headache and resultant loss of judgement, I went onto Yahoo's Buzz log, where the main event was Biden's open mic faux pas. However, pay heed to the question at the bottom: why all the pens?

Umm, the first time I saw a President sign a bill on TV it was Eisenhower, and he used umpteen pens. Every President since has done this little bit of showmanship, which I suppose came about because the price of ballpoint pens dropped dramatically during Eisenhower's first term. If all you had to go by was the Buzz log reply, you'd think Obama was the first to do this: which makes the answer nearly as stup---er, misinformed, as the question.

It doesn't surprise me that these people don't know what happened during Eisenhower's presidency. A good many of them don't know who was President before Bush 1. It is surprising that they have never run into this ceremony before, multiple pens and all, and I think I have the answer.

Space aliens have taken over the earth while most of us were preoccupied with the next sale. Their cover is fairly good, but like most Americans, they are unable to grasp the concept of history, and the idea of extra-somatic knowledge. Their weakness is believing that nothing has happened unless they saw it themselves, possibly live but preferably on YouTube.

Those of us who can still think should form remote colonies in the deep woods, far beyond the comprehension of the aliens. From them, we can gradually take control of the Internet, presenting a view of the planet that is steeped in something called reality.