While you are waiting for the next compelling post, go to Tigerhawk and check this out. Even if you are not a performance art fan — and crank that I am, I am not — this is wonderful. By the way, on another subject, yesterday Tigerhawk made fun of Obama for not knowing the dates of his conception or birthday. Really he was gikking Obama for deliberately “misspeaking” about them to include the aura of the Birmingham and Selma marches in his conception myth. Obama has suggested that his parents’ deep love for each other was, in part, a product of the new day signaled by the civil rights movement. Unfortunately, the Senator was born way before any of that. I, for one, take the traditional view of why the good Senator would deliberately exclude of any dates, timeline, or other information about his parents’ meeting, falling in love, and marriage from his autobiography — though he does, of course, include his date of birth. And he was right to do so, before he had reason to know that he would become a successful national figure whose life would be picked apart by the media for inconsistencies and fibs. The very quick divorce, hot on the heels of the already abandoned Ann Dunham finding out that she was in a polygamous marriage, suggests that she did a really admirable job of shielding her son from all sorts of harsh truths.