\u2022 Cars fail to start about 10,000 times more frequently\u00a0in the movies than in real life.\u00a0 Hollywood needs better car mechanics.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Trees three styles.\u00a0 From Hilton Head, South Carolina:<\/p>\n
\u2022 When men stop trashing public restrooms, I might start trusting them to do things like, say, crafting health care legislation or acting as commander-in-chief.\u00a0 Until then, I assume that what they do in the restroom reflects how they would act in more important matters.<\/p>\n \u2022 Please note how I showed excellent restraint by not using “piss on them” as a punchline in the previous item.\u00a0 This is a family blog.<\/p>\n \u2022 A fair number of Trump supporters seem to be less interested in more education and more interested in Trump finding jobs for the less educated.\u00a0 I hate to break it to you, but it looks like one of you already has the Secretary of Education job.\u00a0 I’ll leave it at that.<\/p>\n \u2022 I support primary health care, but my last primary-care physician didn’t seem to want to deliver it.\u00a0 She would triage me to specialists for things that I know a PCP should be able to handle, if only she were willing to work with me.\u00a0 It was akin to calling a repair shop and saying, “My car won’t start” and getting the response, “OK, please hold — we need to refer you to a battery specialist.”\u00a0 I didn’t know whom to blame, my insurer or my doctor or her malpractice insurer.\u00a0\u00a0 So I now have a new primary-care physician, and so far so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2022 Saltines shouldn’t be salted on the top but the bottom, where our taste buds are. \u2022 By the way, I want to register a formal complaint to the Attorney General about Nabsico, the company that makes Premium Saltines.\u00a0 We … Continue reading ![\"tree-three-styles\"](\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/tree-three-styles.jpg\")
<\/a>\u2022 I have not been in many women’s restrooms — after all, it is illegal in North Carolina —\u00a0 but I have to assume that they are not the nearly-universal disaster that men’s rooms tend to be, in all but the better establishments.\u00a0 Why do so many men want to make such a mess of things?\u00a0 Why do other men not only put up with it but expect it?\u00a0 I intend to dedicate a future blog post to photos of public men’s rooms — without men, of course — in order to heap shame on both their users and their owners, if that is possible.<\/p>\n