Ever wonder how to cope with those myriad pseudo-issues like "Kagan would at least build bipartisan consensus if not LEGAL doctrines on the Court", or the super-importance that same-sex folks can/can't marry, or the penultimate imperative and "God's holy will" that immediate mass immigration MUST occur into the USA, or any other such stuff down to the impact a divorce between Al and Tipper Gore will have for generations to come...all while most media smile, assure us everything's fine but for a few fill-in-the-blanks, and nice people ask for your rights from gun ownership to total say-so/hush-hush pouring over every record relevant to every USA resident?

Well, now there's the "And" factor! Every time you hear that a pseudo- or extremely limited scope "issue" MUST command all attention as if everybody but YOU (and you, and you, and yes you Comrade, and you over there in that nation, and you, you, you, you ad infinitum), just say: "AND? If what you prate about does or doesn't happen, how will it affect things like the USA ever-present high unemployment rate (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-03/bernanke-says-u-s-unemployment-imposes-heavy-costs-update1-.html); the everlasting four-digit price for an ounce of gold (http://www.monex.com/?gclid=CPDWs4j6hKICFR36iAodv3v8cQ ); or fact that so far, all immigration and house building amid all that has produced is a USA wherein at least 50% of any status people live on total government dependency for homes et al (http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/03/the-2009-index-of-dependence-on-government )?".

So take heart! The next time someone implying their intellect and savvy are superior to most and are looking for YOU, cutey or burly brute, to be in their "inner circle"as if they need you, or otherwise imply no issues BUT what they talk about even exist, just use the good ol' "AND?" factor.