Point to a word on a OneNote page, hold the Alt key down and left-click once on the word.

A panel will open on the right with definitions of the word from Bing. There is a dropdown menu with a selection of dictionaries, thesauri, and reference sites. (Since I wasn’t sure about the plural, I used OneNote to look up “thesauri” in an online dictionari.)

The apathy factor in American presidential politics has seemingly never been higher.

As if to combat this, we’re getting stories now about how this election is closer than you’d think, how Obama is in for a “tight race” or a “fierce fight” with Romney, and how the Republican challenger is “closing in” to a “statistical dead heat.”

They’re going to say this, and they may even have numbers to back it up, like this week’s Gallup poll showing Obama with just a two-point lead. But I think it’s a mirage.

The people who work for the wire services and the news networks are physically incapable of writing sentences like, “This election is even more over than the Knicks-Heat series.” They are required, if not by law then by neurological reflex, to describe every presidential campaign as “fierce” and “drawn-out” and “hotly-contested.” But this campaign, relatively speaking, will not be fierce or hotly contested.

Instead it’ll be disappointing, embarrassing, and over very quickly. And everybody knows it. It’s just impossible to take Mitt Romney seriously as a presidential candidate. Even the news reporters who are paid to drum up dramatic undertones are having a hard time selling Romney as half of a titanic title bout.