Coulda been our vice-president

This is almost surely the last crappy low-resolution cell-phone photo that this blog will have, because my snazzy new phone has arrived. I've already taken some shots with it which will hopefully show up here soon, but I'm having difficulty moving them from the phone to my computer. The phone didn't come with a USB cable (found one on amazon.com for $2 and ordered it, though), and for some reason the email function isn't working right--need to call AT&T for troubleshooting, I think.

Anyway, I don't actually walk on the Strip very often, because I tend to enter and leave the casinos via the parking garages. But last night I had occasion to be wandering. It's the first time I've noticed the stars embedded in the sidewalk. Apparently it doesn't take much to get one, because I had not even heard of the great majority of the people who have been so honored. But I certainly knew this name: Wayne Allyn Root, the VP candidate for the Libertarian Party this year. We could have had a vice-president who had his own sidewalk star in Vegas, and we collectively blew the opportunity!

The star calls him the "King of Vegas." Maybe that's why he couldn't get elected--I'm pretty sure the Constitution says something about not having kings. It's a little-known legal-historical fact that that's also why Elvis never became president.