I’ll tell you something that both bothers and astonishes me.  It’s going to the candy aisle in the supermarket and seeing so many brands and flavors of gum that I can’t count them all.  Obviously, there must be a market for all this gum, and for all these varieties.  I wish that all that genius that produced that panoramic array of chewing gum would go into something more productive, and leave more room on the supermarket shelves for a more useful item, like food.