Our Gang 
The last member of one of the first bank robbery gangs to use Nixon masks has finally been caught.
Eighty-Four year old Carmine Jannece and colleagues robbed a Michigan bank 17 years ago, shortly after release of the film “Pointbreak” . The movie featured a gang wearing presidential masks, and spawned a wave of copycat First Robbers which has yet to stop.
Also Halloween costumes, and T-Shirts. 
Jimmy Carter Explains All 
…and continues his Mother’s Day March to the Sea, plugging the book.
Tonight, Carter continues his effort to outrage all of decent society by speaking to Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.
Future Ford Afloat! 
Who’d a thunk we’d turn to ESPN’s “Tuesday Morning Quarterback” to point out oddities at sea, but Gregg Easterbrook is on to something peculiar in the Navy’s naming schemes.
The troubled USS Gerald Ford, paired with Reagan and Bush Sr. ships, sent him over the edge.
“TMQ finds repugnant this blatant Pentagon favoritism for Republicans. Gerald Ford was never elected to national office: he was appointed to the vice presidency, then became president by succession when Richard Nixon resigned. The never-elected, half-term Ford will have a supercarrier named for him while Clinton, a two-term president twice chosen by U.S. voters, does not.”
Bush Is Gear 
A groundswell [or tsunami?] for Gerry is difficult to detect. The wingers at Newsmax ran petitions to name the ship for Ford, even touting USS Ford caps. Their site is Ford-free of merchandise now, if it ever carried it.
And lest we forget, the USS John F.Kennedy was retired last year.
Having already provided the gifts which say “I Love the 70s” for Christmas 
and the Fourth of July 
, Jimmy Carter is bringing his word wrangling magic to Mothers Day with a book about, um, his Mom.
A Remarkable Mother hits the shelves April 1. 
