I often ponder on things. (omygod, I so totally said the word ponder... ponder is such a funny word! )

I was thinking about inventions and inventors this morning, and where they get the idea for the things they invent. Like those pull tabs on aluminum cans. I wonder how that idea come about.

Was Ermal Cleon Fraze drinking a soda one day when he looked at the can and thought to himself...hmmm. Why don't they just cut a hole in the top, attach a ring to it and then stick it back on the can. Without the aid of a can opener, people can pop the top off and drop it into their drink. Then several million people can swallow the tab, gash their throat, jab a hole in their intestines and suffer deep agony and possible death. Yeah. I bet that'll sell really well.

And it did. It also gave those really tacky home decorators the opportunity to create curtains made from chains of 'drink tabs'. Didn't you just love those!  Me neither.

Of course everything that is invented is always improved upon. Later on, someone decided the gashing and jabbing was too harsh, so they opted to leave the slice of metal attached to the can. It's much safer now.  Now it just rips the fingernail off down to the flesh whenever we try to open it.

And the names they come up with for these inventions. Like the tooth brush. Did the person who  invented it have only one tooth? Why didn't  they  called it a teeth brush? And then there's the vacuum cleaner. Does this mean you are cleaning a vacuum?  Isn't a vacuum just a space with nothing at all in it? ...Yeah, that's what my dictonary said too. Like wise with the iron. It's made out of chromium plated steel and cast aluminum, and it presses cloth. There's no iron in it. No vitamins nor minerals either.

The New York Post certainly answered a burning question for us this week. One that I'm sure has kept all of us up many nights worrying and wondering about, and possibly even pondering:  What's on Hillary Rodham Clinton's iPod?

Songs from her youth figure heavily in the selection of about 1,000 songs, said Clinton, who called herself  "a child of the '60s and '70s.''

Motown tunes, classical music and the Rolling Stones are all on her playlist, the 58-year-old senator told The New York Post. 

''I've got everything -- a total smorgasbord,'' Clinton said.  She said the mix includes Aretha Franklin's Respect, The Beatles' Hey Jude and Take it to the Limit by The Eagles.

According to sources close to Hillary, she also admitted to listening to Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper a 'couple of times' just to see what they were about. "But I did not inhale", she hastened to add.

Clinton, a possible presidential candidate in 2008 who is running for reelection to the Senate this year, said her favorite time to listen to the music player is when she's doing paperwork at home. (probably in her bathroom.)

 Even a Senator's business isn't finished until the paper work is done.