Now that the election is over, we can look forward to ridiculing the beliefs of people who disagree with us, but on a less-frequent basis. The winner in the mid-term elections this week is clear—television advertising departments. Don’t believe it.

Mary Shelley’s creation Frankenstein is 200. He doesn’t look more than 175. Actually, most of us know Frankenstein is the doctor who created what the monster. The monster, however, has always taken his own lack of name recognition in stride.

The coffee container at the 7-11 had a decal for the “Rainforest Alliance”, an environmental organization. I looked at the amphibian that was part of the logo. I asked the guy at the counter, “Just how many frogs do they put in the coffee?”