\u2022 It has been a wonderful, warm, green, revitalizing spring here in the mountains.\u00a0 I hope you have been enjoying yours.<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 One thing that always manages to irritate me is hearing a politician speak for the “American People”.\u00a0 The American People know this, the American People want that.\u00a0 What it really means: I think this, I want that, and if you don’t vote for me, who are you?<\/p>\n
\u2022 Another reliable irritant for me is the Fashion and Style section of The New York Times.\u00a0 Its latest polemic against living sensibly is this feature<\/a> on “photographer” Maxwell Snow, by Jacob Bernstein, son of Carl.\u00a0 (I know you’ve heard of one of them.)\u00a0 The article is titled, “Life on the Other Side of the Lens: Maxwell Snow, Photographer, Sets His Demons Aside.” Maxwell’s demons<\/a> seem to have Manhattan sensibilities: “Eventually, the stars aligned, and Mr. Snow and [his fiance] Ms. Traina went on their first date \u2014 to Omen, a Japanese restaurant in SoHo that\u2019s popular with fashion types partly because it does not serve rice with the sashimi.”\u00a0 All I can say is, please.<\/p>\n \u2022 Sometimes I like to say things to irritate my wife, just for the sake of seeing her reaction. Like, “I wonder if Hooters has an early-bird special.”\u00a0 I was thinking her reaction to this might be, “Why don’t you go find out?”\u00a0 Her actual response was not so different, except the sarcasm was much less subtle.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 If you google the phrase “May 8 North Carolina,” the first site listed<\/a> is a group opposed to the proposed North Carolina constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, or any other “domestic legal union” that does not involve a man and a woman.\u00a0 Conservatives in this state craftily scheduled the referendum on the amendment for the same day as the Republican presidential primary, when few Democrats would normally be expected to go to the polls.\u00a0 Take America Back, indeed.<\/p>\n \u2022 What part of “no pre-existing conditions” do the opponents of health care reform dislike? Seems to me that the most common and crippling disability in the U.S. may be the inability to walk in someone else’s shoes.\u00a0 (For more evidence of same, see previous item.)<\/p>\n \u2022 “What I am accused of is macaroni and cheese!” <\/em> Another product of a strange dream.\u00a0 It’s like we all go on acid trips every night when we fall asleep.<\/p>\n \u2022 I am reading a primer on graphic design — its author<\/a> maintains that typing two spaces after a period is obsolete.\u00a0 I know that web browsers routinely compress strings of spaces down to a single one, but that doesn’t mean such a rule should apply to all text.\u00a0 If you think this blog is dense now, imagine what it would be like if I didn’t add those spaces.<\/p>\n \u2022 “The Walking Dead” would be more entertaining if the zombies<\/a> wore designer clothes and staggered around in stiletto heels.\u00a0 Think, “Stiffs in the City”.<\/p>\n \u2022 Unlike Facebook, you don’t need to log out from this site.\u00a0 This isn’t the Soviet Union, and there’s no Berlin Wall confining you to East German desolation.\u00a0 You are free to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2022 It has been a wonderful, warm, green, revitalizing spring here in the mountains.\u00a0 I hope you have been enjoying yours. \u2022\u00a0 One thing that always manages to irritate me is hearing a politician speak for the “American People”.\u00a0 The … Continue reading
![zombies<\/a> wore designer clothes and staggered around in stiletto heels.\u00a0 Think, “Stiffs in the City”.<\/p>\n\u2022 Unlike Facebook, you don’t need to log out from this site.\u00a0 This isn’t the Soviet Union, and there’s no Berlin Wall confining you to East German desolation.\u00a0 You are free to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022 It has been a wonderful, warm, green, revitalizing spring here in the mountains.\u00a0 I hope you have been enjoying yours. \u2022\u00a0 One thing that always manages to irritate me is hearing a politician speak for the “American People”.\u00a0 The … 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-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-at-large"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","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=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/images2.wikia.nocookie.net\/__cb20111112063631\/walkingdead\/images\/thumb\/9\/99\/Walking_dead_bicycle.jpeg\/524px-Walking_dead_bicycle.jpeg\"){kind=link}