I went to the real, live, bricks-and-mortar grocery store the other day, something I rarely do, and a trip down the feminine hygiene aisle has prompted the following:

What’s with the sudden super-abundance of super, super-plus, and super-plus-plus tampons? You can hardly find a Regular anymore, let alone a “Slender” or “Junior” or whatever euphemism passes for “smaller than a grain silo” these days.

Is this the “Starbucks effect,” where big is the new small? Or is it the “7-Eleven effect,” where they discontinue the smaller sizes to force you to buy more?

Or…is there some kind of a correlation between global warming and menstrual flow? (A very inconvenient truth.) Is that why we suddenly have so many “red states”?