Olé!

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The sun is out after a couple of dreary days and the blue sky is a welcome sight. I haven't posted in a few days because I'm happy to say I've actually had some work. That aside, my energy level has been low. The elections on Tuesday didn't help my rainy-day mood. Poor Mr. Spector....Think what you will about the guy but he has been a good public servant for thirty years. To see him loose a primary, especially at his age, is heartbreaking. And to think that a Tea Party candidate won in Kentucky! That just adds insult to injury. Guess we'll survive but you have to wonder what happened to all the forces of good that were with us right after Mr. Obama was elected. Where did we go wrong? The rapid right is so good at framing issues to their advantage. It's easy for them to get a message across in a quick sound-bite whereas more nuanced positions are not so easily or quickly defined. At the White House, they're celebrating the visit of the president of Mexico. Maybe Senor Calderón's stay takes the sting out of some Tuesday's results for the beleaguered administration. Diversion is a good thing and what better way is there to take our minds off losses than to eat? Sounds like the state dinner was a success and Rick Bayless from Chicago's Topolobampo pulled off a meal that I'm sure was memorable. So while I watched the ho-hum American Idol finalists on TV, Mr. Bayless and Beyoncé made history. I get the feeling that Rick likes the spotlight. I'm sure he's a good restaurateur and his Chicago connection makes him the right cook for this event but maybe they should have hired some illegal immigrants from Arizona to cater the affair. Or the mother of the little girl who,in the presence of Mexico's first lady, told Michele that her mother was here without papers. Instead of Beyoncé, they could have asked Sheriff Arpiao to come up from Arizona to put on a skit. He could have conducted a fake raid and carted off all those undesirables to a Washington jail where they'd have to listen to courses in American history from Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh. Maybe his warm-up act could have been last night's American Idol loser, Goldilocks Casey James, who would have put them all to sleep.... Oh---it's a funny old world. Time for lunch now so I'll go ponder it all....Thanks for giving the chance to vent!!!