Brain lint

• We set heat records Monday, Tuesday and may possibly do the same today. Storms today, then twenty degrees cooler tomorrow. This is crazy.
• This is just annoying: a news article on the Walmart being built in my neighborhood referred to us as the "far west side of Milwaukee". Uh, NO, this is West Allis. Do not attempt to conflate us into the great socialist metropolis.
• It's bad enough the local tax levied on every purchase to payoff the loans taken out to build Miller Park keeps getting extended, but apparently the Brewers have been playing fast and loose in other areas as well. If the team played better, I could see their argument about needing the space for overflow parking, but as it is... And by the way, in the eleventh paragraph is a perfect example of my number one pet language peeve, one the JS editors should have caught: THAN is the word that indicates comparison, not THEN.
• The 2012 Obama presidential campaign is in full swing, at least on the internet. I can't count how many times I've seen sidebar ads asking people to join the campaign. All feature the up-nostril picture that is supposed to make us think Mr. O is still our savior. The really odd thing is that I've seen the ad on sites that I generally think of as right-leaning. Advertising money is advertising money, I guess.
• Why is it that when it is hot, I crave things like chicken biscuit casserole, beef stew and hot soups?
• Dear Mr. Buddy on a Bike: While I appreciate and applaud your decision to bike to work in honor of the greenies' attempt to wean us from our so-called "addition to oil", you need to pull over to the curb lane. Riding down the middle of the right hand lane will not win you any friends - and may well get you killed.
• Went to Starbucks last night to escape the heat. Granted, it is next door to one of the best custard places in the city, but it still left me wondering: who are all these people, and where did they come from? Every person in the city must have been outside last night, every restaurant, movie theater and mall parking lot was jammed. Where do they all hide in the winter? Or are they like the cicadas, but coming out only when the temperature rises above ninety?