Thanks for the Bailout, Now F@#! Off!

Mrs. Uneven and I currently are in the Midwest visiting the Uneven Parents. As folks out here are accustomed to doing, I went out to start the rental) car engine for a few minutes so that the car battery wouldn't die. Upon returning to the car to turn the engine off, I discovered to my chagrin that the Chrylser PT Cruiser automatically locks the car doors if the key is in the ignition. I consider this a minor design flaw, but nothing to get too upset about since most people, most of the time (i.e., non-Midwesterners and Midwesterners during warm months) don't leave their cars running for extended periods of time. What I am upset about is that Stu Hanson's Chrysler dealership in Des Moines, which has the ability to cut keys, refused to do so for me and in fact was quite rude about it. This comes despite the fact that Chrysler just received a boatload of my taxpayer dollars to stay in business.

Now, anyone paying attention to the U.S. auto industry should be aware that one of the industry's fundamental problems is that there are too many car dealerships and state franchise laws stop the Big 3 from reducing their number. Given the shabby treatment I received, it's no wonder the Big 3 are going under. When they finally go bankrupt, I'd like to see Stu Hanson's be one of the first dealerships closed.

2008 Commercial Soundtrack Playlist

Well, this is abbreviated and not up to my usual standards for these types of posts. I hope you've enjoyed the other ones. Here are the four songs in commercials that really stuck out at me recently (or on shows on my TiVo). I hope you find this minimally helpful.

"Colors" by Kira Wiley - Dell Commercial
"Bruises" by Chairlift - iPod Commercial
"Brand New Day" by Tim Myers - iPhone Commercial

"Silly Boy" by The Blue Van - Samsung Behold/T-Mobile Commercial

Obama is NOT the President-elect (Yet)

In point of fact, former Senator Obama has not been elected President yet. November 4, 2008 was merely the election of Presidential Electors. The new members of the Electoral College in turn will meet on December 15, 2008 in their respective State Capitals to cast their votes for President of the United States. The Senate will meet on January 8, 2009 to count the ballots. Whomever (99.999999999999% certain to be former Senator Obama)gets the most vote will then become the President-Elect for a whole 12 days before taking the oath of office as POTUS.

What should we call former Senator in the meantime? President-designate. Because the results of the November election clearly indicated that Americans wanted him to be the next President (i.e., we collectively designated him to be the next POTUS).

No one else probably cares about this, but I find it extremely irritating and further evidence the MSM is lazy and stupid.