W goes down smooth

This picture turned up on Yahoo! News today. (Credit AP Photos and one Haraz N. Ghabari for being in the right place at the right time and having good reflexes.)

After studying it closely, I'm now convinced that it captures everything history will have to say about the current president.

In it we see the most powerful man in the world misstep and stumble, but even more than that, we see how he always emerges with the frat boy good humor that Garry Trudeau captures so well in Doonesbury (e.g. here). You can almost hear the president saying to himself: "Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeesh, heh heh, oh yeah!". Can we get this idea through our heads: that no matter how everything turns out, this president is going to say it was for the best?

On a different note, I wanted to give a plug to German electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss. I crossed his CD a while back on Amazon but forgot about it until I heard a track on Groove Salad yesterday that made me feel better about the world. Turned out to be something by him. Apparently a lot of other people feel the same way about him. Even the outtakes on his website are excellent (e.g. this one).