Why would anyone buy a deodorant that wasn't also an anti-perspirant? Is it okay to have huge wet circles under your armpits just so long as they don't smell?

And why, if a toilet has a lid, would you not lower this lid before flushing? Not once have I gone into a stall at work and found the lid down, and I know people aren't going back in after it's done flushing and lifting the lid to save the person after them three seconds of bother. Why would you needlessly expose yourself to a toilet aerosol of urine and feces? Why, God, why?

And why at the Super Bowl was it at all appropriate to project names of World Trade Center victims onto a rectangular sheet, not even show all of them (only getting to the Cs), and then drop the sheet into a cloud of light and smoke, basically re-enacting the crash, albeit symbolically? Did the same people who enjoyed this spectacle and were moved by it also invest in those lovely Pearl Harbor commemorative coins with pictures of Japanese planes bombing things on them? How soon will it be before I can order my official Franklin Mint china plates with pictures of planes running into the WTC on them?

Four years? Three?

And why would people congratulate themselves on buying those silver dollars with pictures of heroic firemen painted on them, where $5 from each purchase was sent to WTC charity funds? Do people really need to be bribed with shiny objects before they'll open their wallets? Wouldn't it be better to give the whole amount to charity, not just the measly $5 cut? Were they going to buy a cheesy, colorized coin anyway, so this way it just worked out all around?