So how would a real president, Ronald Reagan, handle a problem like Wikileaks? First, he’d be quick to apprehend Julian Assange. Then he’d take Assange up to the top of the Empire State Building and show him the beautiful city before them and say, “This is the country you’re mindlessly harming with what you’re doing.” Then he’d set Assange on fire and throw him off the building in full view of cameras as a warning to others. And then he’d just start bombing whoever else was involved. They want to be free with information, and Reagan would want to be free with cruise missiles. And eventually enough stuff would be blown up to solve the problem.

Just saying how Reagan would handle things. Not trying to criticize Obama and the nothing he is doing.

So Obama caved on the tax cuts like a good little weenie, extending all of them in exchange for an extension of the unemployment benefits which the GOP was probably going to go along with regardless. So now the left is apoplectic (it is Tuesday) as they won’t get whatever prize they thought they’d get if the rich had their taxes raised and are now talking about primarying Obama in 2012 with a more left wing candidate.

Really?

Now, Obama has been already soundly rejected as too left wing by Americans already, and the nutroots are going to find someone even a bigger weenie and even more of a push over on the international stage? I could only imagine that the mere sight of the guy would turn children gay.

Plus, if they primary the first black president, how is that going to work out with their minority pandering which is the only way the Democrats remain competitive? They could have their own little race war in their own party and completely destroy it.

So just a heads up; 2012 could be a lot of fun.

I realized that every so often there are things that I want to rant about that are just too inconsequential for a whole blog post but I also have too much to say to just tweet something and get it out of my system, so I figured I’d just put a couple in one post and have my peace. That was the whole point of the blog in the first place — to make sure some things I wanted said were said and on record — so here we go:

* Early Marvel comics from the sixties really didn’t get the show-don’t-tell-concept, which you think would be obvious when you have a book filled with pictures. For instance, if a guy is being tripped in one panel, there will inevitably be someone in the same panel saying, “That guy is being tripped!” Who is this aimed at? People who are unable to interprets basic images but are able to read? So infants who are literate.

* We have a satellite radio in one of our cars, and it’s pretty neat except for one thing. Whenever I’m listening to music on it, I will inevitably wonder who is singing the song I’m listen to. So I hit the “Info” button twice. Why twice? Because hitting it once just gives me the genre of the song. When in the history of music has anyone ever said, “I wonder what genre this song is?” But whoever made the radio apparently thought that was more important info than the artist. Do people even test these things out before they ship them? Why do people waste my time?

* I like Big Bang Theory (despite the four camera, laugh track set up which I thought we were about done with as a society), but you have to be extra careful to make sure it doesn’t fall off your DVR because they don’t make it available online at all. The show about geeks is apparently too scared of this new fangled internet to have online distribution. Can’t watch it with ads on Hulu; can’t buy an episode through iTunes. The only option to get a missed episode (if you don’t want to wait months for the DVD release) is to go to some skeevy site filled with intrusive ads and download some non-legal copy. I’m too old to be pirating things. Look: I have money right here in my hand. Just give me some way to give it to you in exchange for your show. Is that so hard?