Miller-McCune

Age-related dementia currently affects about 10 percent of the U.S. population — you could look it up on the Internet.

Our Michael Haederle suggested awhile back that coffee might be the elixir of life, which frankly struck us as rather obvious given the way it raises us from the dead every morning.

The world is a complicated place. Full of irony, not always the laughing kind. Sen. John McCain might take note.

Two respected Washington, D.C. lawyers — tax expert, finance watchdog, media adviser and occasional Miller-McCune contributor Marty Lobel and Joseph Goldstein of the Mayer Brown law firm — are offering an intriguing way to prevent future financial meltdowns of the subprime sort: A team of academic experts would survey the financial field and warn government of impending problems before they happen.

A poll taken just after the Vice Presidential debate provides fresh evidence that such face-offs tend to raise the favorability levels of both candidates.