"...Looks Ain't Everything...Then Again...."

Technology is a wonderful thing.

We live in a time when being stranded on the road is pretty much a thing of the past, thanks to cell phones.

We live in a time when we're not chained to a radio or record player to enjoy the latest hits, thanks to the applicable app on our applicable hand held device.

And we live in a time that has seen the extinction of one of politics' most insidious vices.

The two faced politician.

In place of two faces, we are now offered a single expression.

Gone are the days when office seekers and/or those who analyze and second guess office seekers had to put on an expression for public viewing separate and apart from their everyday look.

Game face? No need.

These days, it's all about "keeping it real."

And making sure that "the American people" get "the truth".

So, we "get" the...

...."Well, maybe I really am some kind of Vulcan born wack job, but, I'm the Vice President, baby" face...

..."see...I really can lean to the right if I find it politically expedient" face...

..."now that my campaign is evaporating, I figure it's okay to show "the American people" that I'm just a little crinkly nose cutie pie at heart" face...

..."thinking about which side of the two sides I need to take today to show people I'm on all sides today" face...

..."bet your children's college fund that you'll never see a picture of me leaning to the left" face...

and...

the..."the experts thought this campaign was a joke, well, who's laughing now?" face...


Whatever your particular political predilection , you can't find fault living in a period of political history where "what you see is what you get".

With, perhaps, one exception.

The smirk.

Neither frown, nor smile, nor vacant stare, nor lean right/lean left, the smirk is one of those faces that tends to irritate people, even if they don't consciously realize that they are being irritated.

It looks something like this.

No mere satirical savager of the sincerely sincere I, let me offer that I know what this face is all about because I have worn it countless times myself.

More often when I was in the rebellious teenage years, but, pretty much, off and on, from time to time as needed, ever since then.

Usually when I was unwilling to admit that I didn't have a clue or know what to say but damned sure wasn't gonna admit it.

On a civilian, the face is, at best, well...smirky.

On an office seeker, the face is, at best, well...smirky.

As well as, perception being reality, a red flag that there may be cluelessness lurking.

And, not to get in your face or anything, but...this ain't our first rodeo with that face.