Congressional boondoggle

Someone please explain to me why steroid use in professional baseball merits Congressional hearings. Don't they have important work to do, like, gee, passing the budget? Or Social Security reform? (Hmm, that's another rant altogether.)

What IS it with irons?

I bought a new iron today. Again. This makes at least the fifth steam iron I've bought in the last ten years. They're not cheap-o offbrand irons either. I can't figure out what the heck causes them to die so soon. They either start leaking or stop steaming. I don't drop them. I don't think spouse drops them. We buy the kind where we can use tap water rather than distilled water, so I don't think it's a mineral deposit problem. Maybe it's the fact that we iron every single day. Maybe we just wear it out.

Hmm. Definitely a non_entities post.