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The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has, as always, been scouring the globe for the readily apparent. Also as usual, the Department has many rivals for pointing out the forest for the trees. The latest DOPOTO impersonator is one Steve Schmidt, the campaign manager for Senator John McCain’s failed presidential bid in the […]

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has been as usual observing and reporting on all things great and small in this great nation of ours and beyond. So far 2009 has been a curious year, with a new president taking the reins of a government and an economy in shambles, up to his

The Department of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has, as always, been monitoring the news and general trends in America and the greater world beyond. It seems that being an incompetent executive is a safe career path only if you are in charge of gigantic banks. If you mess with the nation’s cars, however, the

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has been following the news diligently, which is what we do around here, seeking signs that our nation is coming together to solve a very vexing set of problems. So far there’s not a huge body of evidence suggesting a unified effort. In the financial sector, outside

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) lauds incoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for deflecting a question about peace in the Middle East. At her confirmation hearing today before The United States Senate, she told her former colleagues that despite “seemingly intractable problems,” the United States “cannot give up on peace.” In yet

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO), seeking respite from what feels like an unrelenting torrent of depressing news, has embarked on a study of the unusual. For example, in Nigeria, authorities have been cracking down on motorcyclists trying to evade their new mandatory helmet laws taking to wearing dried-out pumpkin shells on their

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) is back on the job after the holidays and is happy to report that 2009 has a familiar feel to it. Israel and Palestine have thoughtfully provided the world with a heaping helping of what they do best; hating and making war on one another. President Bush

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has been busy investigating cultural differences between nations. For example, the guy who threw his shoes at President Bush The Younger the other day in Baghdad has served to remind us that there are many cultural differences between America and the rest of the world. While it

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has once again been reminded that scientists are out to horn in our turf, the pointing out of the readily apparent. Tired of the pressure to do the hard work necessary to bring new and delightful scientific advances to humanity, many scientists have resorted to providing scientific

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has long been in the business of pointing out the forest for the trees. As trained professionals in identifying the readily apparent, we sometimes overlook the need for not doing so at times. For example, the answer in the title is the logical reply to someone asking you