Ulmus Jefferii

Clearly too much has happened Since April when I was still in grad school in Atlanta. Now’ I’m in Tucson, we have elected a new President (thank you) and the economy is all over the place (although mostly down).

But really the motivation for this post is to get back to posting regularly….So I begin with a screen shot from an episode of Law & Order

Isn’t that the most awesome IP address EVER?

Well I have been busy, lazy, and feeling guilty the last month. Perhaps I could blame the onset of spring or my search for a job, but it matters not.

It’s really coming to crunch time for me. I will be selecting where I live and the job I will have. It’s coming to the end of the semester and there is a demo for research. I will so ready for a change of pace with out 20 different things to do.

I would like to think when I have free time I will better utilize than I have in the past. But only time will tell.

To quote Mike Huckabee, “it ain’t over” and I must agree.

Today Ralph Nader has declared his candidacy for the President of the USA. This begs the question of when (not if) the remaining potential candidates will announce. I am of course speaking of Mayor Bloomberg.

But back to Nader…I think his major strength is his connection to FDR. That’s right folks, FDR been in office less than a year when Nader was born. I am not going to fuel the popular beliefs that FDR had himself cloned, but if you believed such things the timing would roughly add up.

I must confess, Nader or Bloomberg could steal my vote from Lobsterman (and many other voters) if they followed the tradition of ancient Rome.

“Candidate” is a derivative of the Latin “candida” (white). In Ancient Rome, people running for political office would usually wear togas chalked and bleached to be bright white at speeches, debates, conventions, and other public functions.

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