I had a bit of free time between dinner and a work meeting, so I wandered into the Borders bookstore in downtown Indy. Kinda cramped, but pretty cool place, too. After reading the employee suggestions of the month included a guy named “Mookie” who likened some new band to The Killers, but more importantly was wearing a Hurricanes Eastern Conference Champions t-shirt. I like Mookie.
Anyway, the real humor of the visit came in the stacks of “Dummies” books that were not only 30% off, but included a $5 mail-in rebate (which made for a pretty tempting offer, even for someone that’s not generally a “dummy”, no matter how much I act like one sometimes). But I figured I couldn’t possibly be the only one that found the humorous irony in “Baseball for Dummies” being co-written by ESPN’s Joe Morgan:

I love Irony. But I hate ironing. Why are two words that inspire such different emotions so similar?