A Word About Titles - On Sock Monkeys and Presidents

Before I registered for this blog domain I Googled it just to see if someone else also had a pundit of a sock monkey brainwashing their baby.

They don't. Surprised?

However, the search came up with hits about a company in Utah, who last summer created a sock monkey doll in the form of our not-yet-to-be-president Barak Obama. An apparently innocent (although naive and fairly misguided) idea, but the NAACP and a lot of other people rightfully went totally bizerk. Oops.

Just for the record this website has nothing to do with that company or the apparent Obama sock monkey controversy. It did get me thinking though and all in all (although I understand the underlying racist connotations) I don't think a sock monkey is all that terrible a thing to resemble. After all, Rod Blagojovich looks very much like a cross between John Travolta and something that went wrong at the Muppet Workshop, Margaret Werner of the Jim Lehrer Newshour is a dead ringer for Dr. Spock's long lost sister and Dick Cheney bears a striking resemblance to Satan.