Things I just don't get

In ascending order of incomprehensibility:

• Why the Mobile Register changed its name to the (Mobile) Press-Register without retaining the name of its hometown in the masthead, forcing people to do things like place "Mobile" in parentheses in front of its name.
• Why former Gov. Jim Folsom, Jr., waited until the last second to enter the lieutenant governor's race as the Democratic nominee last week when one of his potential GOP opponents has saturated the airwaves with ads for weeks and another arguably has even greater name recognition than Folsom does.
• Where exactly a video that curses at Bush administration officials would fit into an eighth-grade science curriculum.
• How anyone could do what was done to former Alabama football booster Logan Young.