Given the tone of the campaign so far that would be an improvement. ... Rupert Murdoch's ex-wife Wendy Deng is reportedly dating Russian president, Vladimir Putin. You have to wonder about her choice of men: one's a dictatorial, power-hungry man and the other is Vladimir Putin. ... A law enacted by the North Carolina legislature says people can only use bathrooms based on their gender at birth. I can see it now: "Ma'am, before you can use this men's room you have to demonstrate if you are carrying original or after-market equipment." And you thought the guys handing out towels and cologne in public restrooms had a crappy job. ... New instructions from the latest downloadable conference app "Use this app and you won't have to interact with a real human being in the course of the conference. ... Love company self-service websites. I was trying to create an account on Mutual of Omaha (medigap insurance, yech) and it kept telling me my info didn't match the company records so I called support. "You have to put in the hyphen in the policy number" the helpful person on the line said. 'it automatically inserted the hyphen," I replied. "What's your social security number?" I read it. "That matches. You should leave of the "H" in the policy number." "You mean the 'H' that the policy says is part of the number?" "Yes, leave it off." I removed the offending letter. "Now it should work," he said. "The system stays it's down for maintenance." "We do that when things need to be fixed." "Yeah, but it's 12:43 pm. EDT. That's not real encouraging."