WHY 'SELFIE STICKS' were invented.

BERNIE SANDERS' CAMPAIGN SLOGAN: "A horseless carriage in every garage." With emphasis on 'horseless' -- just the carriage.

WHY I NEVER LIKED CROSSWIND LANDINGS:



You fly straight down the runway with the aircraft nose cocked into the wind; then just as you flare for landing, you straighten the nose, drop the upwind wing, use plenty of opposite rudder and 'skid' the aircraft into the ground. Then you level the wings and allow the nose to come down. It takes lots of practice, as the video makes clear.

SHE MADE BE EXPENSIVE, but she's easily bought.

WHAT'S A 'GROUSER'? I don't know either, but the Curiosity Rover has a Martian rock stuck in one.

DOOM & GLOOM IN THE LAND OF UNICORNS: ObamaCare emergency room visits up.

Three in four emergency room doctors said patient visits have increased since the Affordable Care Act's requirement to have health insurance went into effect....

That's not the news some healthcare advocates had hoped for. The thought was that by expanding health coverage to more people, they would get their ailments treated earlier by primary care doctors and could avoid visiting emergency rooms....

But instead of pulling back on emergency room care, the newly [ObamaCare] insured now have a plan to pay for those visits so they're not responsible for the entire bill. And that seems to be driving the change in patient load....

It was obvious at the outset, but thinking is not a strong suit for progressives.

AFTER YOU, KOFI: Eat more bugs, stop global warming. "A maggot for you, a maggot for me you, a maggot for you, ...." [Apologies to Abbott and Costello]