This week may mark the first time in U.S. History that a Presidential kegger party hit the headlines, worldwide. I'm not sure if linking Barrack Oabama, a distinguished educator, a plain old cop and a keg is actually newsworthy. But toss in Microsoft, Bill Gates, a patent application for an ultra-high tech kegerator and Bill Clinton and you're gonna sell papers.
What's all the beer hoopla about?
Barrack Obama hosts a kegger later today. Special guests police Sgt. James Crowley, educator Henry Louis Gates, Jr
(Harvard) and a passel of press. Need the backstory?
- The sarge arrested the prof last week when the prof broke into his own home.
- A concerned neighbor called the cops, and all hell broke loose.
- Cries of racial profiling, nosy neighboring and a Presidential faux pas - Obama said the cops acted stupidly - hit the media.
- It was good timing - Michael Jackson's demise was beginning to fall off the front page, anyway.
The kegger is hip President Obama's way of diffusing the situation and apologizing man-to-man (hiccup!) for his slip of the Presidential lip. (Sounds of much back slapping and belching.)
Wait! 
What about Clinton? Gates? And Microsoft? How do they fit in?
I have to connect my blog posts with technology, of course, and with baby boomers.
Perusing the Web, I found baby boomers Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and some guy named Nathan Myhrvold (ex Microsoft techno chief) banded together and dreamed up a new
uber-tech kegerator:
"temperature-stabilized storage containers" -- super-high-tech devices intended for use in the storage and transport of "water or flavored water, dairy product or fruit juice, carbonated soda, wine, beer or distilled spirits, for example."
They evidently
filed for a patent. Three choruses of
we can change the world.
Which all proves one thing.
You can sell media, with just about any headline, to some of the people some of the time, but there will still be that looney bunch that says we never did put a man on the moon.
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