In the year or so before he died, my dad mentioned wanting velcro shoes, because tying or buckling shoes with arthritic fingers was a pain. Maybe you could find a really tiny-footed senior to sell them to, Kat.

But I'm sorry your day has sucked.

I'm being a moron. This is nothing that the half pound of pasta I just ate and a nice long nap won't fix.

Man Dies After Fall Into Chocolate Tank

CAMDEN, N.J. - Police said a 29-year-old man died Wednesday morning after falling into a tank full of chocolate at a Camden business.

Police were called to a warehouse and manufacturing facility on the 700 block of North 36th Street around 10:45 a.m. Wednesday for a report of a man who had fallen into hot chocolate.

According to authorities, the man was working at Lyons and Sons, which leases space to Cocoa Services. That company takes raw chocolate and melts it down to send out to other companies who use chocolate.

Police said the man was standing over the vat of chocolate and was dumping the chunks of chocolate in when he fell in. At least three people turned the emergency shut off, but it was too late because one of the paddles had apparently knocked him out. The chocolate was 120 degrees.

The man had been in the melting pot for about 10 minutes by the time crews arrived. He was declared dead shortly after 11 a.m.

The turnout gear of firefighters at the scene was covered with chocolate, as were the clothes of an obviously distraught co-worker who was being consoled by an EMT.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been called in to investigate, Fox 29's Robin Taylor reported from the scene.

I've also really liked Lands End kid's shoes, which are sometimes on super-sale at Sears.

Or just on the Lands End site itself. But I ditto the recs for Lands End and L.L. Bean for shoes. These days, too, I've been buying the Converse and Champion shoes at Target for Nate and Abby. Abby's got a rockin' pair of pink Converse with sparkly pink stars.

Man Dies After Fall Into Chocolate Tank

They haven't released his name, so we're all going to call him Augustus Gloop.

That sounds like an awful way to go, though. I'm not sure you could appreciate drowning in chocolate while you were being burned alive.

So who here remembers when I burned my finger on a Pop-Tart? Was it Saturday? Anyway, the blister just popped. Should I do anything to the burn area? or is it OK at this point?

I'd put on antibiotic and bandage.

Hmmm... do we have bandaids here?

OK, there's a question no other Buffista could answer....

That's about as bad as the 19 people in Boston who drowned in molasses after the holding tank burst some 100 years ago, flooding the streets with the sticky stuff.

In "I really hope Olbermann talks about this tonight!" news, morning FoxNews anchor makes racist comment. (Huge surprise, I know!)

Kilmeade and two colleagues were discussing a study that, based on research done in Finland and Sweden, showed people who stay married are less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's. Kilmeade questioned the results, though, saying, "We are -- we keep marrying other species and other ethnics and other ..."

At this point, his co-host tried to -- in that jokey morning show way -- tell Kilmeade he needed to shut up, and quick, for his own sake. But he didn't get the message, adding, "See, the problem is the Swedes have pure genes. Because they marry other Swedes.... Finns marry other Finns, so they have a pure society."

Kilmeade proceeded to tell his national television audience, "In America, we marry everybody. Some will marry Italians, the Irish...."

We are -- we keep marrying other species

We...do?