So I watched the State of the Union (more on that in a bit) from my health club. One of the things I love about D.C. — even in my health club, located in northern Arlington, they put all of the televisions in the place on the SOTU, turned the volume up, and most everyone in the place gathered in the cardio room to watch. What other city does that?

Anyway, my health club has the closed-captioning turned on for all of the TVs in the building, so you can watch and follow along while you’re burning calories, and trying to look good for the calorie burner of the opposite sex (or same, if that’s your bag) on the treadmill next to you.

Closed-captioning I guess is still an inexact science. Two of my favorite closed-captioned moments from Bush’s speech:

1) At one point, Bush referred to Saddam Hussein as “the Iraqi dictator.” The transcript on the screen read: “the airport dick ate her.”

2) “He’s attempting to stockpile uranium” showed up as “he’s attempting to stockpile your anium.”

Let’s make one thing clear. If Saddam Hussein puts his grubby paws anywhere my anium, or the aniums of my loved ones, not only will I shift and support the war, I’ll be the first to enlist. My anium, my business.

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