Don't Cast Pearls Before Swine

It seems all we can talk about these days is swine flu. Anything whose first name is "swine" definitely has a PR problem. For the last few days, some folks have been obsessed with the swine flu and forget about buying one of those little surgical masks. Did you ever see the "I Love Lucy" episode where Lucy and Ethel are at the department store sale and they had to elbow the other women out of the way to buy a dress? It is the same situation at the local Walgreen's if you are trying to buy a mask or any flu medicine. And, who wants to wear a mask anyway? If you have the flu, you should be home. And if you are out and about wearing a mask, everyone assumes you are Typhoid Mary and clears a 20 foot radius when you walk by. I saw an acquaintance at the grocery store wearing one and the yahoo came over and wanted to shake my hand. I had to do the "I did not see the hand go out" routine, which is always awkward, to avoid touching his hand.
And now, the "swine" folks are all upset that pigs are getting a bad name because of the flu and want to change the name. Political correctness strikes again and please, the word swine has had a problem for a long time. Look it up...swine means an obnoxious person, like the guy in the mask trying to shake hands at the HEB.
And at least our VP Joe has provided some comic relief on the whole situation. After he opened his mouth and inserted both feet on the "Today" show this week when he said, basically, we should shut down public transit, the White House got to spend two days saying idiotic things like, "What the Vice President meant to say was..." It sounded like me trying to explain what my teenager said. Well, at least we are getting some good jokes out of the Obama administration these days, along with the "Its So Big I'm Not Sure What Number to Use"Debt.