Bubble Bo
by Michael Schaffer

How different is the life of Bo, the White House dog, from the life of your own pet? On one level, not so much. Consider this small item, reported by CNN, in which Michelle Obama elaborated to visiting third-graders about how the new puppy was fitting in.

Michelle Obama described him as “a crazy dog.” Bo “loves to chew on peoples’ feet,” she said. Mrs. Obama told a story about the night before, when Bo was apparently barking loudly in the White House residence.

“Everybody was asleep, and we hear all this barking and jumping around. The President and I came out and we thought somebody was out there. It was just Bo. And he was playing with his ball, and it was like there was another person in the house.” 

Normal, sweet, new-puppy stuff, right? Maybe for any other dog. But for a pooch who lives with the world’s most powerful man–a guy whose every move is dissected by allies, opponents, and a vast universe of kooks. Thus the nearly 200 comments about CNN’s squib of a story included this one, flagged by my pal Mary:

The dog’s behavior could be indicative of an anomaly in the environment.

The White House should be constantly monitored by an independent entity for the presence of both continuous and pulsed-beam electromagnetic radiation (EMF). The presence of microwave radiation is known to be capable of causing adverse health effects; some animals may display ill-tempered behavior in the presence of EMF. 

Pulsed-beam radiation threatens the republic! Roswell obsessives, demand answers.