{"id":15556,"date":"2017-08-01T19:25:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T23:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=15556"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:42:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:42:56","slug":"thoughts-large-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2017\/08\/thoughts-large-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts @ Large: 47"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Donald Trump: fake president, real prick.\u00a0 Donald Trump: no leader of the free world, but the world’s cheerleader for vile remarks.\u00a0 Donald Trump: vainglorious minus the glory.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>I keep thinking I’ll get Donald Trump out of my system, but he lingers on like a bad case of pinworms.\u00a0 Not that I’ve had pinworms, but you<\/em> come up with a better analogy.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 My wife is furiously typing on her laptop, and she turns to me and asks how one spells unaesthetic<\/em>.\u00a0 My reply was, can you just say ugly<\/em>?<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 My 80\/80 Facebook Rule: Even taking into account the 80% of things that one decides\u00a0 it is better not to comment on, 80% of what remains is still better not to comment on.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 And the remarks I decide not to post on Facebook?\u00a0 80% of them wind up in this blog.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 My spouse often asks me to “dust the tops of things” before company arrives.\u00a0 I cannot recall a time when I was asked to dust the bottoms of things.\u00a0 So when you visit our place, please don’t look there.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 It is my firm belief — maybe even extra-firm — that pillowcases have been designed for planned obsolescence, and zippers are the weak link.\u00a0\u00a0 The only reasons I have ever thrown out a pillowcase are because the zipper tab falls off or the zipper gets stuck or breaks down somewhere along its short pillowy highway.\u00a0 Are zippers made by Chrysler?<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Speaking of planned obsolescence, what is it about supermarket raspberries?\u00a0 Once you bring them home, you have (at most) 36 hours to eat them before they start getting moldy, even when refrigerated.\u00a0 I suspect that someone at the berry packaging plant is responsible for spraying spores on them prior to shipment.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\"pork<\/a> I went to the Southern States<\/a> farm supply store last week to buy some bird seed.\u00a0 (They have great prices on safflower seed, a cleaner and cheaper alternative to sunflower seed).\u00a0 Waiting at the checkout, I saw these pork rinds.\u00a0 Not just any old pork rinds but microwave<\/em> pork rinds.\u00a0 The feeling crept over me that I was out of my element here.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 I was saddened by the senseless assassination of NYPD officer Miosotis Familia<\/a>.\u00a0 Her yet-another wanton and random death was not a carefully-thought-out act of some evil, affluent, philosophical mastermind, but instead the pressure-cooked product of poverty, alienation, neglect, a cacaphony of messages, guns sloshing around like oxycodone, and a culture of untethered survival that most of us don’t even begin to understand.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Those of you who would prefer that thoughts expressed here would be happy thoughts: there are times for escape and times for engagement.\u00a0 Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0Donald Trump: fake president, real prick.\u00a0 Donald Trump: no leader of the free world, but the world’s cheerleader for vile remarks.\u00a0 Donald Trump: vainglorious minus the glory. \u2022\u00a0 I keep thinking I’ll get Donald Trump out of my system, but … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-at-large"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15556"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28250,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15556\/revisions\/28250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}