We attempted to stay up late enough to catch part of the SOTUS last night. Sadly, we couldn’t do it.

Our interpretation of the event is therefore based on what other people thought about it, partly in another language popular here these days. The key take-away seemed to be a moment of tribute to the President’s endurance, since he spoke for 73 almost-continuous minutes. He made some key points about fixing inflation and the border crisis, which apparently will create a new path to citizenship for people who are dreaming about something. He also emphasized the recent jobs report that demonstrated more good news: Americans now have more multiple part-time jobs than any time since World War Two.

Sadly, apparently we will be dependent on “oil,” for another ten years. You might recall that greasy evil substance that currently provides mobility, fertilizer, heat, communications, fabric and all that other stuff.

There was no reference to exactly how that is going to happen. Some of us used to do Powerpoint briefing slides with little logos of lightbulbs indicating “miracle occurs” between other bubbles containing perfectly reasonable but somewhat contradictory thoughts. Sometimes in other popular languages. So, we were comfortable with the slides we saw this morning. From coverage this morning, apparently they are working on something to harness wind even when it isn’t blowing and absorb more sunlight at night.

So, with that crisis solved, at least conceptually, the struggle for control over the money machine begins. That is predicted to cover all costs for new lightbulb logo development.

Since this appeared to be the first campaign speech of the 2024 election, it was sort of poignant.

Everything for the next 20-odd months will be about who gets to create problems and then announce they are solving them. We were interested in the SOTUS response from Governor Sarah Huckabee. She said we just had to choose between “normal” and “nuts,” which we liked better than the choice she actually articulated. She used the word “crazy.” Generally speaking, we are opposed to that.

After the third cup of java this morning we took a quick poll in response to the polling data displayed on the flat screen. As citizens, we discovered we are generally opposed to crazy policy decisions. If we knew which ones they are. According to the poll, “whimsical” was more in line with our leanings.

We are not sure that sentiment is contained in any of the word bubbles on the slides. This morning, the hearings begin about important issues expressed by former executives of a social media organization we quit using a few years ago. It will be the first of what promises to be a series of such things that will only go on for a couple dozen months.Here at Big Pink, we are going to concentrate on new logos signifying really good ideas.

Our first effort is shown at the top of this incisive analysis. We were trying for something that demonstrates something. We are not certain at this point what that is, but it is a start, you know? Only twenty months to go!

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