In a pre-inaugural speech today, the President remarked: “Everyday I am president I will serve all Americans.”

I am reminded of an episode of the 1960’s TV show The Twilight Zone in which a spaceship full of seemingly well-intentioned aliens from outer space arrive with a book titled “To Serve Man”, which is taken as proof of their friendly intentions.

Only at the end of the story, after the aliens have taken many gullible and trusting Earthlings away, is “To Serve Man” discovered to be …a cookbook.