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Writing on the wall

Odd, squiggly lines render the new chief of staff an enigma


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Now that’s just loopy.

Depending on who you ask, the signature of President Obama’s new Chief of Staff, Jacob “Jack” Lew, either looks like a mess of zeros, a second-grade doodle, or what happens when you try to draw a straight line while riding a Tilt-a-Whirl.

It’s so strange, in fact, that handwriting expert Sheila Kurtz, the managing director of Graphology Consulting, told The Daily the signature ranked “among the most uniquely weird we have seen in a quarter century of graphology.”

“It looks like an unraveled Slinky,” she wrote.

Here’s her breakdown of what to make of this weird John Hancock.

Benjamin.Carlson@thedaily.com