Name that leader: When the Never Hillary voters decide they're also Never Trump voters, who's left to vote for? For anyone who thought the Gary Johnson option was viable, well, maybe it's time to think again. The Libertarian candidate has impressed folks with his public service record as the Republican governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003. Heck, the conservative Detroit News broke with a 143-year, unbroken tradition of endorsing Republican presidential candidates and announced this week that Johnson is their man for the White House.

And just as that endorsement was hitting the internet and newsstands, Johnson offered up yet another reason why he's simply not ready to run the country. During a town hall interview on MSNBC Wednesday night, host Chris Matthews asked Johnson to name his favorite foreign leader or, really, just any foreign leader he admires. Just one.

Johnson went absolutely blank. Matthews prodded, "Go ahead, you gotta do this. Anywhere. Any continent. Canada, Mexico, Europe, over there, Asia, South America, Africa. Name a foreign leader that you respect."

"I guess I'm having an Aleppo moment in the former president of Mexico," Johnson responded.

The Aleppo moment was his previous crisis point, when a separate MSNBC interviewer asked him on Sept. 8 how he would address the growing humanitarian crisis in Syria's most populous city, and Johnson admitted he didn't have a clue what Aleppo is. (Notwithstanding the gaffes, the Chicago Tribune endorsed him on Friday.)

Lots of Americans might have trouble naming a foreign leader. Probably lots more would have trouble identifying any major Syrian city. But they're not running for president of the United States, a job that requires a working knowledge of world affairs.

Oh well, there's always the Green Party presidential candidate, Jill Stein. In response to Johnson's brain freeze, she piped up with her own list on Twitter of foreign dignitaries she admires. Except, not one of them actually runs a country, as Politico quickly noted.

For all of Donald Trump's missteps of late, at least he knows the name Vladimir Putin. Uh, we all remember which country he runs, don't we?

Signs of the times: As a newspaper founded on Dec. 12, 1878, we have always considered ourselves to be Sagittarians, astrologically speaking. So imagine our dismay to read this week that we are in fact "Ophiuchans," born under the constellation Ophiuchus, "the snake-bearer."

It seems NASA has gone and applied "science" to the perfectly reasonable zodiac calendar drawn up by the Babylonians 3,000 year ago. The Babylonians traced the sun's route through 13 constellations, but having only 12 months to work with, they fudged it.

Applying "science" to the task, and taking into account shifts in the earth's axis, NASA says the astrological signs should all begin a few weeks earlier. That means, for example, some people who've thought they were Aquarians living in their very own age are really Capricorns.

Polls show about 30 percent of Americans believe there is actually some truth to astrology. But a space agency statement said, "Here at NASA, we study astronomy, not astrology. We didn't change any zodiac signs; we just did the math."

Great. Where can we get a Sagittarius tattoo removed?

St. Louis blues: Another one of those "America's Most (fill in the adjective of your choice) Cities" surveys came out last week. This time the adjective was "liberal" and St. Louis came out No. 1.

The survey, from Livability.com, included some data points from both St. Louis city and St. Louis County, but appears to have relied more on the city, an entity it says is run by Mayor Francis F. Slay. In fact, his middle initial is G for Gerard, but we're sure the rest of the survey is accurate.

St. Louis got blue points for its friendly policies to the LGBT and immigrant communities and for its allegiance to Subarus, HBO, Maxim magazine and Victoria's Secret. As "most liberal city," St. Louis beat out university towns like Berkeley, Calif.; Cambridge, Mass.; Ithaca, N.Y.; and Boulder, Colo.

Irate local conservatives may want to consider moving to Bullhead City, Ariz., Livability.com's most conservative city. We don't believe that, either. The name is too perfect.

Fast action: The University of Missouri-Columbia police are to be commended for springing into action on the school's campus Tuesday night in an incident that led to a fraternity's suspension.

University officials and national representatives of the Delta Upsilon fraternity also were right in taking swift action against the fraternity while reports that members shouted racial and sexist slurs at black students are being investigated.

The university was criticized, beginning in 2010, for not paying enough attention to complaints about racial intolerance on the campus. Problems continued to escalate, resulting in demonstrations and protests last year, including a hunger strike by a student and a boycott by the football team. The unrest was followed by the resignation of MU President Tim Wolfe and of Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, who stepped down to take a research position at the university.

Mizzou's quick action on the recent problems indicates university officials got last year's message and understand that they must act when students complain of abusive behavior.

Potty humor: What right-thinking St. Louisan didn't at least get a chuckle out of the news that men can now take a no-penalty shot at Stan Kroenke? The former St. Louis Rams owner's mug and the message "#SlamTheRams" has been imprinted on urinal cakes being used at the Hotshots sports-bar chain locations in Missouri and Illinois.

We have only one request — how about something for the women's bathrooms? Lots of ladies would be amused to have an equal shot at Silent Stan's picture. Perhaps on the toilet paper?

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