Given that I earn a living as a journalist, you can call me a professional observer. A set of properly working eyeballs attends this occupation, and mine requires eyeglasses for optimal performance. Often I use my eyeballs and eyeglasses to watch television. It so happens that I recently purchased a new pair of glasses and a new flat-screen television on the same day. And you know what I observed? The eyeglasses with bifocal lenses, at about $1,000, were more expensive than the television by a factor of three. When I informed a man I…
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