It took me a minute to get this cartoon from yesterday. Then I realized that it was like "Whack a Mole"...which would make sense, of course, if Iraq was pronounced like "Ear-Rack" instead of "Ear-Rock". Don't get me started on those who call it "Eye-Rack" which is so far off the reservation only 43 does it. And yes, thanks Fincher for badgering me about this until my brain relearned it.

In the spirit of learning one new thing every day, however, I feel compelled to point out that, evidently, the wacky way 41 pronounced "Nevada" is actually correct. You're supposed to pronounce the middle syllable the same way you say "vapid" so that it becomes "Ne-va-duh" instead of "Ne-vah-duh", the way I've always said it. It sounds silly, sure, but evidently that's the way the natives say it.

Back to your regularly scheduled programming.