The questions aimed at making fun of Dennis Kucinich this evening rubbed me the wrong way ...

Notice the triangular-shaped "UFO" roughly centered in the blue area of this outstanding Hubble photo of the Lagoon Nebula ...

This evening's debate was fine until the panel decided to toss Dennis Kucinich's sighting of a UFO at him--clearly making fun of a serious candidate while poking all serious Ufologists such as Bill Puckett in the eye. Both Kucinich and Barack Obama were polite (but needlessly silly) about it. Still, the ugly taste of disdain remains ...