Overheard while Trick or Treating in Franklin

"It's like 1933 Berlin here in this town." This past Sunday while scaring the neighbors for candy, I ran into two Obama canvassers. Our city of Franklin, Wisconsin appears to be heavily in McCain's camp, and this was their response when I asked them how their work was going. Nazism seems to be all the rage as hyperbole supersedes actual issues and content. Some Republicans in Pa, are using this Nazi label.

Overheard at an Evangelical mega-church

Displayed on its two jumbo-tron video screens… ‘You are loved.’ Upon seeing this, I turned to my wife and said, “Look, the video screen says, ‘I’m loved’.” Marshall McLuhan would be proud. In his seminal work, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964 he posited the truth ‘The medium is the message.’ McLuhan wanted us to know that how we convey something is as important if not more important then the actual idea that we are intending to express. So after that worship service, the most personal of messages was just conveyed to us in the most impersonal of means.

Overheard at a McDonalds

‘Daddy’s buying the Big Mac so he can win a million bucks, then you don’t have to go to no school no more…’