Ten Things That Occurred to Me #35
You can't bring about equality by legislating inequality.
Remember kids, it is only through the miracle of modern capitalism that you all aren't living in a hovel, breaking your back all day to barely feed yourself and your family, walking in horseshit everywhere you go, and dying in your 40s.
There is no microscope known to man that is powerful enough to see my desire to see the Barbie movie. (Note: this view has actually changed from when I first wrote it….)
Who the President is actually has very, very little effect on the day-to-day lives of Americans, and people care way, way, way too much about it.
I'm going to say it right now. The defiant, arrogant, proud, in-your-face bat flip is the greatest thing in all of sports. We need more of this.
My local grocery store appears to have made an effort to hire some autistic folks as cashiers, and I appreciate that.
I’m starting to see that statements of fact can be taken as “racist comments,” and I find that both sad and fascinating.
The NCAA is an old, archaic, stodgy, behind-the-times organization.
I admire people who, in the face of the worst kinds of hardship, find meaning and a way to be better human beings despite it all. That this has become a controversial view is kind of sad.
Companies gather our information, and we usually view this as a privacy issue. I think we'd do better to view it as a property rights issue instead.