Please, Get this Campaign Over. Please!

Now he's done it.  Senatorial wannabe Mourdock's recent ads are attacking Donnelly for failure to pay his personal taxes.  Talk about opening a can of crap that is going to spill all over the one who opened it!

You're Kidding, Right?

Vice-presidential debates are a truly bad idea.

Everybody loses, especially "the people.":

Elections

We have a race for U.S. Senate in our state which will result in an embarrassment for all the citizens of the state no matter which candidate is elected.  Sigh.

Nobel 2012

Serge Haroche on winning with David Wineland the Nobel Prize in physics:  "I did not see it coming."  

And yet they could "see" the measurement of quantum particles.

Bob and the Drugstore

The Little Woman sent me to the drugstore to pick up scripts.  I came home empty handed for, they claimed, they could not fill it until next week since the insurance company would not pay for it until then.  Of course, I had the option to pay cash.  Like I said, empty handed.

"That," she said, "is what I get for sending a man to do a woman's job."

Oh, yeah, I didn't say.  If you know so much, then why did you?

Airbrush, anyone?

So Ikea wants to sell product.  Why are people incensed about the fact that their catalog was altered for a specific market?  What the heck?  Now here I am, incensed that people are incensed.
(Now I hear that Ikea has apologized.  Again, what the heck?)

It is possible that I am just too dense to survive in this world.