Primrose Road

At the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, a museum which definitely skews a bit Reagan:

Me: This place is weird.
SigOther: It's not *that* weird. They do have an exhibit that praises the New Deal.
Me: And one that suggests the House of Representatives would vote 418 to 17 in favor of a rather awful imaginary bill.

[here we briefly debate whether one can, as a registered Democrat, conscientiously vote for McCain and believe he's simply the better candidate; I say maybe, if this were a different election and weren't immediately post-Bush.]

SigOther: So you'd vote for Mickey Mouse if he were the Democratic candidate?
Me: This election, probably ... "Richard and Helen DeVos Exhibition Hall"? Where have I seen that name before?

[beat]

SigOther: Amway.
Me: What?
SigOther: He's the founder of AMWAY.
Me: The biggest, most cult-like multi-level marketing scheme/scam ever?
SigOther: Yep.

Apparently, back in the mid '90s, Amway was picking on college students, and two of SigOther's friends got swept up in it. It's interesting that Amway claims to be about All-American free-market capitalism yet requires participants to recruit their own competitors.

In any case, the Amway connection exponentially raised the museum's creepiness factor ...