The QT: 'Lab-tested' pot for dogs, Donald Trump's invisibility cloak, and more

A veteran journalist, tongue firmly in cheek, riffs on the headlines of the day

Goodbye.
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News Headline: "Rush Limbaugh: Obama leading 'coup d'etat' to 'take over' country"

News Headline: "Louisiana legislator invokes witch doctor to defend creationist law"

News Headline: "Warner Bros. drops Dumb and Dumber sequel"

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Too much competition.

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News Headline: "NSA surveillance scandal: Donald Trump calls Edward Snowden a 'grandstander' "

A public service reminder: Outbreaks of irony can occur at any time or place, without warning.

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News Headline: "Human-scale invisibility cloak unveiled"

Trump looks to be a 44 long, now that we're at it.

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Beware the ides of National Accordion Awareness Month.

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News Headline: "Chicago board votes to close 50 schools"

News Headline: "Philadelphia mayor defends school closures, layoffs"

It's too early for the big name change. But we do keep taking steps toward The Nation Formerly Known as Great.

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+ E.R., a Los Angeles reader, regarding QT's asking readers to please stop playing word games with reports on medical marijuana for pets, writes:

"My dog wants some. We shouldn't terrier delay."

+ Dan Skowron, a Romeoville, Ill., reader, writes:

"Would this be lab tested?"

Stop it.

Stop it now.

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News Headline: "'Quit Google, Facebook,' suggests tech expert as surveillance scandal deepens"

No. Couldn't do it.

Google and Facebook are always there for us.

It would be like losing, well, a big sister or brother.

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QT Grammar R Us Seminar on the English Language;

Catherine Jones, a Halifax, Nova Scotia, reader, wants you to know that when you hear about a "robbery gone bad," you are hearing about a robbery gone badly.

As opposed to Wall Street, where the robberies are going fantastic.

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Write to QT at zaysmith.qt@gmail.com

QT appears Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

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Zay N. Smith is a Chicago writer. Before starting the QT column he worked at the Chicago Sun-Times as a reporter, foreign correspondent and writer of major features. He has also worked as a bartender, having played a key role in the 1978 Mirage Tavern investigation, in which the newspaper operated an undercover bar to document the breaking of many laws by many officials.