There's a plan to fix the parking situation in downtown Omaha and the Old Market. Compared with this, enacting that plan to put a man on Mars should be a cinch.

You can tell campaign season is in full gear. On Wednesday, President Obama gave a speech in Wisconsin. He was wearing a cheesehead.

Tom Osborne turns 75 in a few days. He's already received three cakes, a new Rolex and a car. And those are just the gifts from a nervous Doc Sadler. At midweek, the NU men's basketball team was tied with Penn State. For those who don't follow Big Ten basketball, this is similar to learning your SAT score matched Jessica Simpson's.

You can tell campaign season is in full gear. On Wednesday, President Obama gave a speech in Wisconsin. He was wearing a cheesehead.

Rick Santorum is talking tough. Next time there's a war, instead of bombs he's calling for dropping Paula Deen recipes on the enemy.

There was a commercial touting Hy-Vee as the most romantic place to shop for Valentine's Day. Whoever said that has obviously never seen the cheese aisle at Food 4 Less.

Mitt Romney just described himself as "severely conservative." With swing and independent voters likely to determine the election, President Obama announced he's going to stop campaigning and let Romney do it for him.

I think Valentine's Day is generally a bigger holiday for many women than for many men. For men, it's basically like Groundhog Day, only less eventful.

To get rid of bedbugs at UNL residence halls, exterminators are heating the rooms to 120 degrees. The rooms are almost as hot as coach Doc Sadler's seat.

It may get down to 0 for the first time this winter. It's so cold that OPPD officials have their hands inside their own pockets.

Nebraska State Fair officials hope to lure more Omahans to Grand Island by offering things that we can't normally find in Omaha. If that's the goal, I'd go with the "good roads and low taxes" exhibit.

A new travel service in New York is offering "unknown destination" packages - you buy a ticket and have no idea where you're going to end up. This is nothing new. Metro Transit has featured this for years.

It's now reported that UNO experienced its own bedbug problem. All the bedbugs left campus when they couldn't find anywhere to park.

Brad Dickson's humor column, "Breaking Brad" appears daily on Omaha.com and in The World-Herald. To read more from Brad, check out his past columns at omaha.com/dickson and follow him on Twitter.

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