RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane. Automobile turn signals ought to be renamed 'idiot signals'. Twice this morning, in the space of less than a mile, I had two cars use their turn signals to tell me that they had already started moving into my lane of traffic.

I was always under the impression that turn signals were to tell the other drivers what you intended to do, not what you had already done. When you turn on the blinker after you've committed to the turn all you're telling me is that you're an idiot.

OBAMA'S 2012 CAMPAIGN THEME SONG:

AND I THOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT CONGRESS: Global Wind Day comes and goes.

ADAPTING TO TECHNOLOGY



From my email.

CRUSIN' FOR A BRUSIN': Independents and Nearly a Third of Democrats Think Obama’s Policies Hurt Job Creation.

YOU KNOW WHO'S HURTING WOMEN? Stupid women like Elizabeth Wurtzel. Here's the proof: in writing of 'educated' women who choose to be stay-at-home mothers,

[I]n the interest of doing what’s right both for me personally and for women generally, I ....

So ... what's right for her personally must also be right for women generally. How do you spell 'condescending pseudo-intellectual snob'?

THE SECOND TERM: What would Obama do if reëlected? Long, but worth the read.

PAPER, PLASTIC OR CLOTH: Which Bag is Best for the Environment?

COLLEGE GRADUATES: The new American Helots.

THE ORIGINAL NANNY STATE: Swedish politicians urge men to stop stand-up urination.

AND LIBERALS KEEP COMPLAINING that conservatives/Republicans are bigots.

REGARDING A NEWS REPORT of a large rat clawing the leg of a NY subway rider, Mayor Bloomberg "plans to ban large servings of soda, which should reduce the size of the city's rats (5th item)."

CREATE YOUR OWN wireless yard sign. I checked my neighborhood -- nothing -- but hit paydirt in Washington DC: 11 for, 3 against, and 2 present (one of which may have been the White House).

WHEN YOU LOSE Dana Milbank, you've lost the election: “I had high hopes for President Obama’s speech on the economy. But instead of going to Ohio on Thursday with a compelling plan for the future, the president gave Americans a falsehood wrapped in a fallacy.”

THE 'BENEFITS' of flower power.

THE REAL PROBLEM WITH BIG GOVERNMENT: "Congress is addicted to the allure of doing 'something.' Trusting free people to make rational choices is not considered 'something'. They are addicted to the belief that if there is a problem, there must be a legislative solution."

A REPLACEMENT FOR CHAVEZ? Venezuela has built first drone.

YES. Are We in Revolutionary Times?

MARK STEYN: Ground Control to President Obama. Name one tangible 'great thing' that has been started in the last 3-1/2 years.

ENTITLEMENT GENERATION: I'm voting for Obama because he'll provide me with free sex contraception for the rest of my life.

Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you.