Very Random Thoughts - October 2018

• It seems we have officially merged Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas into one big commercial holiday.
• The new ESPN Monday Night Football broadcast crew is pretty much unlistenable. Guess that is what the mute button is for. 🏈
• I think it is very accommodating of shrimp to have evolved so that they turn pink when cooked just right. 
• Lobsters fall into the same category of appreciation.
• What are the odds that the last of a 1.75-liter bottle of vodka would be exactly one shot glass?
• Sports statistics have gone completely crazy. Do we really need to know that the pitcher is only the 15th person in MLB history to get more than seven strikeouts on consecutive Thursday night home games? 
• Why does it seem to always rain when the forecast is 20% yet almost never rains when you cancel outdoor plans because of an 80% rain forecast? 
• It is amazing to me how sensitive and defensive the white, Christian, privileged male is to any perceived threat to that privilege. Pretty whiney.
• The other night I had a dream about having a dream. Very confusing. 
• How come the big pipeline companies can afford to bury a huge pipe for hundreds, even thousands, of miles but the local utility companies can't bury the neighborhood utility lines? Electricity, phone, internet, and TV cables on poles will get knocked down. 
• Why is it OK to make people pay for Social Security (payroll taxes) but the GOP thinks the ACA requirement to have health insurance is un-American? 
• Are those really old recordings of Jimmy Dean or an impressionist on the new Jimmy Dean Sausage commercials? Jimmy has been dead since 2010 and sold the sausage company in 1984 to Sara Lee.
• Somebody needs to invent a champagne that doesn't sting the eyes. Then baseball players won't need to wear goggles during postgame celebrations. ⚾
• It seems to me that comedians do better crossing over to dramatic roles than dramatic actors do trying comedic roles.
• The only political poll that is truly accurate is the one on election day. 
• "America First" should not mean America only. 
• Wouldn't it be nice if when you vote early the political TV ads, emails, and junk mail stopped?
• There is a difference between "spin", exaggeration, selective/cherry-picked data and outright lying. 

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