HERE IT IS! The REAL thread you've been waiting for!

I propose this thread as a home for unanswered nagging questions, stupid or otherwise. If it makes you go "WTF?" just post it here and someone will answer it... or at least try to answer it... or maybe just call you an idiot for asking. I'm depending on the infamous Mudcat know-it-all contingent to pull their fair share and contribute answers... or contribute pseudo-answers... or contribute insults... whatever fits the bill.

Yes, this is the place to get those paradoxes unraveled. What? You don't have any paradoxes that need to be unraveled? Okay. Do you have any paradoxes that need to be raveled? What the hell's the difference? Is the fact that "ravel" and "unravel" mean the same thing not, in itself, a paradox? And, if so, can we ever really unravel a paradox since, by the very act of unraveling, we are also raveling?

But that's just an aside. Here's the first thing (of many) I really want to know:

What the hell's up with all the McCain/Palin political signs still adorning people's front yards four weeks after the election? Don't these people read the news? Do they expect someone to step in and redo the election because they're unhappy with the outcome? Are they waiting until Obama screws up the first time (and screw up he will - nobody's perfect) so they can stand in their yards, point at their signs and say, "We toldja so!"?