Lemme just check that all of your brains work the same way mine does

So, we've got this story.

To summarize the important points: researchers in a remote rain forest in Indonesia have found new plants and animals, including a new subspecies of rat which, in the photo, is actually pretty adorable, and which is five times the size of a normal rat.

Okay.

Did all of your brains go exactly the same place mine did? Indonesia, and giant rat?

Now, to be fair, this was found in Papua, which is pretty much the other side of Indonesia from Sumatra, but still. . .

It was a rat unknown to science!

Conversations Lis and I have.

This morning, while I was driving Lis to work, she said, apropos of nothing, ". . . there's ANOTHER reason to hate Bud Selig."

IAN: What? What is?
LIS: Well, you know what George W. Bush's life ambition was, right?
IAN: To own the Texas Rangers?
LIS: No, he DID that. He wanted to be commissioner of baseball. If George W. Bush was commissioner of baseball, think how much less trouble the world would be in!
IAN: Lis, if George W. Bush was commissioner of baseball, Barry Bonds would have destroyed Tokyo by now.