\u2022 I keep wishing that other people would find me as entertaining as I think I am.\u00a0 So I went to the doctor and asked, do I have Ricky Gervais Disease<\/a>, and she said, “As a doctor, I can say professionally, no, you are simply not very entertaining.”\u00a0 I thought, what a relief.<\/p>\n \u2022 States are a dumb idea.\u00a0 The States of the United States are arbitrary units of government that for the most part are holdovers from colonial land grants and various spoils of war.\u00a0 State borders are constructs that now only serve to create artificial divisions among people who are more alike than different.\u00a0 The concept of states embodied in our colonial-era Constitution has baked in centuries-old inequalities.\u00a0 It makes no sense that voters in Wyoming and Vermont<\/a>, for example, have more individual say in passing legislation and electing our President than voters in larger states.\u00a0 Why preserve the quaint notion of tiny and sparsely populated states?\u00a0 Let’s redraw state borders so there is equal population among all the states.\u00a0 (I thought this was a fresh idea — but it is not<\/a>, no, not at all.)<\/p>\n \u2022 Here is what Shakespeare had to say<\/a> about a woman-of-years working in the field:<\/p>\n Upon her head a platted hive of straw,<\/em> Wish I had thought of that.\u00a0 Glad that WS did.<\/p>\n The fact remains, your big fat Madison Avenue smile at this woman inches from your face isn’t fixing that erection thing going on, and you are so flaming into yourself that you check out every woman who walks within ten feet of you to see whether she is “still the one for you.”\u00a0 You asshole, excuse me for pointing out the obvious.<\/p>\n \u2022 According to a survey by the Institute for Applied Economic Research, 26 percent of Brazilians agree that women who wear revealing clothes deserve to be assaulted.\u00a0 In the same poll, 59 percent thought there would be fewer rapes if women knew how to behave.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This attitude is so common, you cannot call it inhuman — it is better to call it barbaric and treat those who hold this attitude as terrorists of women.<\/p>\n \u2022 I would so like to make my blog about uplifting human stories.\u00a0 Wouldn’t that be great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2022 I haven’t felt the urge to write for weeks.\u00a0 Life has made its presence felt. \u2022 The statement “I hate cats” has nine letters and two spaces.\u00a0 Admirably succinct. \u2022 Here’s a tip from me, Mr. Know-It-All.\u00a0 Having trouble … Continue reading
\n Which fortified her visage from the sun,<\/em>
\n Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw<\/em>
\n The carcass of beauty spent and done:<\/em>
\n Time had not scythed all that youth begun,<\/em>
\n Nor youth all quit; but, spite of heaven’s fell rage,<\/em>
\n Some beauty peep’d through lattice of sear’d age.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"cial\"](\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/cial.png\")
<\/a>\u2022 Speaking of women, I am majorly annoyed at the Cialis commerical that starts out with the narrator saying, “She’s still the one for you<\/a>.”\u00a0 What is she supposed<\/em> to be?\u00a0 The one you got tired of?\u00a0 And what about you, you whiskery-bearded guy who forgot to charge his shaver and can’t give up the 1992-look except for the ponytail — no, you don’t want to do a ponytail, small tattoo maybe, but no ponytail — what part do you play in this farce?<\/p>\n