Fish In A Barrel Department: My parents' hometown newspaper reports, "Bad air in N.J. brings warning." Apparently more of the state is looking and smelling like the Turnpike these days, supposedly due to forest fires in Quebec. Funny, the crappy air from the north seems to have skipped over Boston on the way to the Garden State, unless, like one Jersey woman quoted in the article, I'm so used to pollution I didn't notice. "I thought it was the usual New Jersey air," said Beth Hacker of Hackensack. "I didn't smell anything unusual, which is kind of scary."

Another fish in the same barrel: the tap water sucks. Duh. Does it still come in regular and crunchy?

Gimme a break, I still haven't gotten any sleep today.