It is frustrating to see the President not rising to this with the kind of rhetoric that makes sense of it for people whose day job begins by punching a card or logging onto a screen.
As a freelance writer and musician, I generally have more leisure on my hands than do my time-card-punching contemporaries, and have thus heard my name called as a "single" more times than I'd care to admit.
Knapp can see a time not so far in the future when even taxi drivers will take plastic, as they do in London, punching them into meters that double as a card-reading machines.
Police have accused a 17-year-old player in a recreational soccer league of punching Portillo after the man called a foul on him and issued him a yellow card.