The Gormogons [High Praise!] explains the easy way to keep “who” and “whom” straight:

The rule is incredibly simple:

He = she = I = Who

Him = Her = Me = Whom

That’s it. Wherever you would use him, her, or me in a sentence, you can use whom. Give this to him/Give this to whom. Did you see her there?/Whom did you see there? He spoke to me./To whom did he speak? That sort of thing.

That should keep the Grammar Nazis off your Champs-Élysées for a while.

Now if only I could figure out a way to stop typing “teh”.

From Will Antonin:

In context, Obama’s “you didn’t build that” gaffe was said in a speech. In Virginia. On a stage. Behind a podium. By an idiot.

From Jon Lovitz:

True, I didn’t build my acting career. Somebody else did. Cause at the time, I was busy, building the White House! Yeah, that’s the ticket!

From Tony Hernandez:

It’s amazing to think that thousands of years ago, Romans came up with a system to count Super Bowls.

I got Chris Mercurio’s book Dear Obama in the mail. In it, he records the first two years of the Obama presidency — from Obama’s election to the 2010 election — by writing letters to Obama trying to be an enthusiastic supporter. For instance, in reacting to Obama’s “share the wealth” plans, as a bald man he suggest some sort of hair-fairness plan. Looks pretty funny; you can preview some of it on Amazon.

In other reading, I’m now on the third book of Game of Thrones. Man, is would be hard to read if it weren’t on a Kindle so I could just highlight all the archaic terms and get a definition. Is it really true that in medieval times people used the word “mummer” every other sentence?

Look, I know Romney’s going after Obama on this “you didn’t build that” thing. It’s just that I think Paul Ryan’s got a better response:

The President recently suggested that a central government — not individuals — deserves the credit for building successful businesses. This sentiment makes for terrible economics, but also reveals a confused morality.

In a free community, everyone co-operates by voluntarily offering unique gifts: some invent, some invest, others labor, or sell while customers reward the best producers and providers by buying their products and services.

A free economy and strong communities are the best means to reward effort with justice, to promote upward mobility, and to build solidarity among citizens. The President’s vision of a government-centered society — reflected in both his troubling rhetoric and his failed policies — belittles fair rewards for labor and enterprise.

I don’t think I’ve heard Romney defend capitalism on moral grounds yet.

Sunny demonstrates Obama’s “you didn’t build it” principles by making a sandwich and showing she didn’t really make it.

James Taranto of Best of the Web has a pretty good theory on what was behind Obama’s weird “War on Success” speech: Maybe Obama is resentful of people who actually earned their success.

Think about it. Obama got a lucrative deal for writing a memoir when he had never actually done anything in his life, he got a Senate seat in a race that was basically thrown, and then after interning in the Senate for a couple week, he was basically thrown into the presidential race as a novelty. And even after being president for three and a half years, the only accomplishment he has that people really like is his not actively stopping the Navy SEALs from killing bin Laden. So Obama has to know he’s done nothing to earn being where he is, and that must make him bitter to see people who actually earned their success and thus can sleep at night knowing they actually accomplished things.

Obviously, the solution is we need to help Obama have an actual achievement so he can feel better about himself. Like maybe find the easiest to assemble desk from IKEA and then someone in the White House can act like they can’t get it together and ask the president to do it instead. And then when he does it, we can pat Obama on the head and say, “What a good, hard working president. You really put that desk together. You should feel good about yourself.” And if he can’t put the desk together, maybe we can give him a Where’s Waldo book so he can try and find Waldo or something. We just have to do something to help his self-esteem.