Two thoughts today

First, I just watched Real Time with Bill Maher (which is maddening, but kinda funny). One of the guests was Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker. He's obviously a leftie — he just said "I think we have the best president imaginable" — and I definitely don't see eye to eye with him on a lot of things.

But he's also intelligent and believes in America. He's aggrandized the notion of ingenuity. He likes inventiveness and entrepreneurship.

In short, we don't have the "best president imaginable" right now. Booker would be a hell of a lot better.

And second, I just learned Jupiter's Great Red Spot is shrinking.

So I'll bet Al Gore is, at this very moment, concocting his next Nobel Prize-winning scheme ...