10/23/4

Today is the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the restaurant I work for, but it felt like the same work as any other day. Now I'm stealing a little time before driving to my brother-in-laws place. I've agreed to babysit my nieces and nephew (actually, I'll babysit my 13-year-old daughter while she babysits her cousins) whilst their parents go to Knott's Halloween Haunt, along with my wife and her best-friend Gloria. Then it'll be back to work tomorrow morning.

At my age, I haven't purchased and rarely noticed a Mad magazine in fifteen plus years. But in the grocery store today, the cover caught my attention, and I stood at the newsstand reading a humorous but very pointed bit on the similarities between the Bush administration and the works of Dr. Seuss. They contrasted quotes from Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld with quotations from Yertle The Turtle and The Lorax, among others. Of course, what it actually revealed is something I've told people for years, which is that Seuss wrote some brilliant socio-political satire disguised as goofy children's literature. I encourage every adult reading this to go grab some Dr. Seuss you haven't seen in decades and reread it. I think you may be surprised just how sharp the messages are from what you may remember.

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