Only in America : 3 completely pointless products

                 As most of you well-informed citizens know, we live in the wonderful United States of America.
                 Living here can have many downsides, but it also has many benefits.  Even though we are ruled by an obviously socialist dictator, we can say just about anything, write almost anything and make/sell almost any product that tickles our fancy.
                This article will include the more interesting (and, in my opinion, pointless) byproducts of that latter freedom.

1. Pet staircases
                Dogs.  For eons, these cute, little, or, in many cases, large, animals have been by our side.  They have helped us catch the night's meal, explore new places and play Frisbee.  After all that work, they surely deserve a break, but where?
                Well, the couch or the bed would be great, but they can't........oh, wait, most dogs can get up onto a couch.  Even if they can't, I suppose it would be just too much work to pick the dog up!
2.  Lens-less glasses
                I understand it's supposed to be a fashion statement, but the statement I hear from that is :  "Hey, because I hear running into blurry objects is a blast, I'm going to pretend to have to wear glasses!"  I canm hardly imagine the meting where the fashion designer said lens-less glasses would become popular.  I imagine it went something like this :
    Fashion designer : "Check this out!  Everyone makes jokes about kids who wear glasses.  Let's start selling just the frames.  We'll make millions!"
    Fashion designer's boss : "For goodness sakes, Larry, why would that catch on?  Well, no one else has any ideas, so I guess we can try it."
3.  Toothpaste dispensers
               Just about everyone who has watched TV while the great Billy Mays pitched his products to the world has seen the commerical for the toothpaste dispenser.  It shows horrifying video of people suddenly having muscle spasms and spraying their bathroom with toothpaste.  Well, I at least assume the people had muscle spasms because that is about the only feasible reason I see for squirting half a tube of toothpaste on the counter.
              So if you happen to have frequent musclle spasms while squeezing your bottle of toothpaste, this product is for you.  But for the rest of us I think we should have the ability to use a tube of toothpaste correctly.
              If you try to make the argument that the dispenser is easier to use, then, please, find the nearest tube of toothpaste, open the top and squeeze.
              That is all you have to do instead of paying $20 for a dispenser, really!