SNIPPET OF THE DAY – AT 12:09 P.M. ET:

Computer programmer William Tunstall-Pedoe has calculated April 11, 1954, to be the most objectively dull day since 1900.   On that day a general election was held in Belgium, a Turkish academic was born and an Oldham Athletic footballer called Jack Shufflebotham died. Apart from that nothing much happened.

He is wrong.  The most objectively dull day was the day Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid held their first joint press conference.  Even the microphone fell asleep.

November 28, 2010