I've been reminiscing about past US elections and administrations.* I've been paying attention to US federal politics since the early nineties, which means I remember a lot of details that many younger politics enthusiasts don't. I decided to dredge some of them up:

• "Lamar!" and the plaid shirt
• "You forgot Poland!" and "Want some wood?"
• Ross Perot's sidelining of Dick Lamm, and Pat Buchanan choosing an African-American woman as his running mate
• Joementum
• Steve Forbes's Gowron-like unblinking stare
• The Book of Virtues
• Al Gore's "lockbox" and his talking point about "the wealthiest one percent"
• That time Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face while they were shooting birds
• Alan Keyes Is Making Sense
• Admiral Stockdale and "Who am I? What am I doing here?"
• Dan Quayle and the spelling of "potato"
• the time Dan Savage licked doorknobs at Gary Bauer's campaign office to try to get him & his staffers sick
• Bob Dole referring to himself in the third person enough that the Capitol Steps did a song about it
• "must credit The Drudge Report"

I imagine some of my readers will be utterly uninterested in this litany, and some will be a little curious, and some will say "AGGGGH" and remember a bunch of things they thought they had forgot in a partially pleasing and partially disorienting experience. I will admit that this entry is mostly aimed at that last group.

* I misheard Leonard or something and we came up with the phrase "Munchin' Accomplished" which he immediately realized ought to be the name of a George W. Bush-administration-themed food cart. It would serve:

• Freedom fries
• Pretzels
• "Condoleezza" rice (her name is Italian, so, risotto maybe?)