Long time reader. First time blogger–

Call it a misdirected Freudian association (ok, perhpas its Jungian), but yesterday’s lament by John Hood in our staff meeting re The Matrix and its lame attempt to present the old nightmare of man melding into machine as something new, brings to mind that our first President, George Washingtion, was also the first cyborg president.

Although I find it hard to let go of the romantic story of Washington and his wooden dentures, Washington never wore wooden teeth. It is reported that his last pair of dentures was made of gold plates inset with hippopotamus teeth, human teeth, and elephant and hippo ivory, and hinged with a gold spring.