The first 100 days

I'm sure we're all having fun with the media's obsession with totting up the successes and failures of Obama's first 100 days in office.  This perennial exercise in reaching conclusions about very complex initiatives that have only just begun tends to devolve into an evaluation of style, one which correlates very well with one's party, one's November vote, and one's position on the political spectrum.

I refuse to play.  I've expressed reservations about some of Obama's initiatives, even though I hope they will all work like magic and this nation will be restored to, well, wherever it is it ought to be, but I find it premature to even think about summarizing his wins and losses.

However, as a former math guy, I would be remiss if I didn't point out that, had we five fingers and a thumb on each hand, we would have to wait until June 13 for these retrospectives; were we cartoon characters with three fingers, we would have done this back on March 25.  And, if we were centipedes, we'd never see day 100.