All about me

I know you're all anxiously awaiting my annual step-by-step explanation of what to do with your clocks for the end of daylight saving time. But, be patient, OK? I'm sure it just slipped your mind, but Congress extended  DST.

We baby boomers always knew we'd make a difference in the end:

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Beyond the convention center filled with glistening hearses, beyond the rows of perfectly arranged caskets and bottles of embalming fluid, funeral directors await perhaps their greatest windfall ever: The death of the baby boom generation.

The other News-Sentinel -- the one in Knoxville, Tenn. -- is conducting an online poll to see if its readers think the paper should endorse a presidential candidate. The results so far are pretty lopsided:

Yes, take a stand. 13% 40 votes
No, we don't need your opinion. 86% 246 votes

I'd like to than ya'll heauh in Hoosierland for being such an important part of the history of the soft drink I grew up with in Kentucky:

I notice so many of the blogs are conducting polls nowadays, and I see that my blogging service has just enabled me do do them, too. You apparently can't be taken seriously in today's highly interactive culture unless you regularly take the pulse of your readers. How's your pulse? Take this poll, please!  

[polldaddy poll=1003358]

This is just sad:

THE art of cooking a humble jacket potato is lost on almost half of the under-30s, a survey has found.

A similar number have no idea how to prepare roast potatoes to accompany a Sunday joint or simple dishes such as shepherd's pie, fishcakes, and leek and potato soup.

The potato is a nearly perfect food because it can be fixed so many different ways to accompany so many different kinds of food. These kids today, I tell ya.

What do you think of this for a meal? T-bone steak with A-1 sauce, onion rings, french fries, four eggs over easy, toast with butter, hash browns, a pint of rocky road ice cream, a Mountain Dew soft drink and bear claw pastries.

Whew. That's the last meal of Richard Cooey, the Ohio death row inmate who argued that he is too obese to be executed "humanely" by lethal injection. The bad news for him:

This Editor & Publisher article makes it sound like The Associated Press is going through a small rough patch. I think it's bigger than that -- technology is passing by the whole model AP uses:

Aren't the protests of Columbus Day (Sunday, Monday observed) getting a little old?

This is a little disheartening, but in a country in which a major preisdential candidate declares health care a "right," it's certainly not surprising: