LAPEL PINHEADS AND OTHER ODDITIES

Good thing all those politicians go around wearing American flag lapel pins. Otherwise you'd never know what country they come from. So you have to figure that the ones who don't wear them must be foreigners. Which probably explains why our 35th President, John F. Kennedy never wore one. He came right out and admitted he was a Berliner, even going so far as to say it in his native language, German, "Ich bin ein Berliner!" For 2 years and 10 months our nation was run by a Berliner with no lapel pin. So we should thank the Chinese people for making all these American flag pins so we know who's who. Plus, it gives the people who are too lazy to think a way of identifying the good guys. Lapel pin: good guy, no lapel pin: bad guy. Once again we are in debt to the Chinese for reducing our national emblem to a cheap wardrobe accessory and giving dumb guys a clue on how to vote.

People have finally figured out who the real American Idol is. Turns out it's that British sissy with the black turtleneck, Simon Cowell, the one who humiliates the emotional wrecks that appear on his show. Take careful notice that turtlenecks don't even have lapels, never mind lapel pins. So this foreign interloper somehow becomes a bigger star than any of the half-baked drama queens and kings featured on "American" Idol. Hiring these so-called entertainers is starting to seem like a clever ploy to make Cowell look like a genius by comparison. Imagine how much of a star he'd be if he had a personality or any talent.

In news from the science world it is reported that being forgetful as one grows older is a sign of a refined and broadly focused mind, a brain able to absorb and collate vast amounts of diverse information. The forgetting of names and phone numbers is merely the beneficial byproduct of a mind able to focus on many different areas and to make sense out them. The report states that retention of trivial details are impediments to the broader focus of a refined older mind. Now I don't feel so bad when I enter a room and forget why I came in there. Science is on my side. At least that's what I think it said. Being an Older Big Picture Guy with a refined mind, I forgot the trivial details.