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The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO), in our continuing mission to go where everyone has gone before, has been perusing the news reports for kernels of truth and obvious conclusions. On Wall Street, banking executives whose corporations have repaid their federal bailout money are applying for gun permits in record numbers. It seems that […]

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has been keeping busy, as usual, performing our only function: observing events and pointing out the obvious. It is often a thankless task, since many humans enjoy interpreting reality to suit their own philosophies, even though the truth has been getting severe sprains from all the contortions

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has been observing with interest the various Green Campaigns, those scientific, and less-than-scientific efforts to reduce mankind’s carbon footprint, cut down on unhealthy pollution, reverse global warming or all of the above. The efforts to exploit non-combustible sources of energy like wind, solar and tidal power have

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO), in our only capacity, that of pointing out the readily apparent, has been following with interest the No-Impact movement. It is an environmental initiative, a Green thing if you will. People are encouraged to turn off their electric lights, stop using their cars, produce as little trash

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO), as part of our ongoing mission to (what else?) point out the obvious, has stumbled across various small news tidbits that bear closer examination. One would be the closing down of an ambitious solar energy project in the State of California for its potential negative environmental impact.

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) welcomes former President of The United States James Earl Carter to our world. In a question and answer session at The Carter Center in Atlanta, our former president responded to a question about the verbal attacks on our current president, Barack Obama, specifically the large number of

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has been observing the anti-government rallies aimed at President Obama’s policies and have come to the conclusion that many of his enemies have severe trouble distinguishing mosquitoes from hand grenades. Others among their ranks have trouble seeing the puppet strings attached to them and often believe they

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has spent a leisurely summer doing what we always do; spotting trends, analyzing worldwide news reports and cultural shifts and then pointing out the obvious (we take our name seriously) to interested parties, albeit in a more relaxed way than usual in deference to the season. This

The Department of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has been toiling in near-obscurity for long years in an effort to point out the forest for the trees. In today’s modern society, oral and written languages are too often used as tools for obfuscation rather than as a means for the clarity in communication for which

We here at the Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO), like much of the rest of humanity, read the newspaper and internet news and hear radio and television news reports just about every single day. Our highly skilled research team has long since concluded that the reports are often incomplete, and that certain phrases