Reset

The story of Hillary Clinton giving the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, a red button with what was intended to be the word "reset" on it in Russian, but actually was "overcharge" (or "overload," according to one article) would be funny if it weren't so pathetic.

Once while on a computer shared by teachers at UNM, I mistakenly typed "whitehouse.com" into the address bar, and I got a porn site. (It should have been whitehouse.gov) Blood rushing to my face, I hurriedly clicked the "back" button. But it was set so that the "back" button just returned me to the same site. I clicked the red exit box to close my browser down altogether. But as soon as the browser closed, it opened itself again, and again on that very same site. I thought I'd messed up, maybe missed the little red X, so I tried it again. Same results. I was beginning to panic.

I couldn't ask for help. Drawing anyone's attention to my problem would just display what I didn't want to be seen. I finally did control-alt-delete for a soft boot, just to turn the whole thing off without shutting down the "proper" way. And if that hadn't worked, I would have unplugged the whole thing.

If only we could control-alt-delete Obama's election. No matter what we do, it doesn't seem to make a difference. Contacting the senators and representatives had no results when we strongly opposed the confirmation of Tim Geitner to the Secretary of Finance position. Forget saying anything against the stimulus package. We didn't have time to even look at it. And every day, the Obama signs something else I'm against. It's like the nightmare of porn popping up every second. Now we're facing a omnibus and future bailouts of continually irresponsible banks.

Reset! Or is it "overcharge!"