Ridin' Along in my Automobile

On my way back to the apartment from law school today, I witnessed an extraordinary sight. I saw a homeless man struggling to push TWO shopping carts. The man was moving (against the wind, no less) to take his bounty of scavenged items back to... well, I have no clue where. He is a nomadic individual as one might guess, but he certainly must have somewhere to store all those random items.

I bring up this man's endeavor because some people like to put down the homeless as being "lazy". Basically, the idea is that people become homeless due to a lack of effort on their part. There must be a job somewhere, right? Must be some bootstraps to pull yourself up by, so get pulling!

But honestly, let's take a second and think about all the homeless people we've ever seen. How many were pushing shopping carts? How many of those pushing actually had more than one cart?

Exactly. This guy is going the extra fucking mile. Against the wing itself, he's pushing (often pulling) these two carts full of (to him) essential items. He's not going to lay down and die in some ditch. This guy is gonna fight to the very end. Meanwhile across the vast stretches of suburbia, some lazy bastard college student is probably back at home enjoying the Spring Break of his 6th year of college. Maybe he'll go out to a few clubs... get trashed... and spend most of the week in bed all day. Then one day he'll graduate from college and get a cushy job either with one of his rich parents or one of their rich contacts.

That's the critical flaw with believing that the poor reap what they sow. Because a lot of rich people didn't sow shit, yet they're rich. What makes the lazy rich man more deserving of wealth than the lazy poor man? I guess the fact that someone is born into a rich family gives them a free pass at life?

Not really offering any solutions here, people... I just don't like this "get a job" mentality held by so many.

On a lighter note, Deepak's away message reads: 3 blades was great, now 5 is awesome. But I have to ask, why didn't they just go for gold and put the full 38 blades on the Super Cold Fusion Razor?

Fucktastic! I had been thinking of this very issue last week. Manufacturers went from one blade on razors... to two... to three... to four... and now five. Why the fuck are they taking so long? Why not just skip to 10, 20, or 38? The razor companies aren't exactly dealing with stem cell research here. It is ethically ok if they by-pass blades 6, 7, and 8 and go straight to 10 without seeing how previous blade quantities and configurations held up.

A good example of this, you ask? Why... I just happen to have one. Pepperidge Farm 15-Grain bread, bitches! 15 GRAINS!?!? I can't think of anyone who actually could name more than seven grains, and Pepperidge is tossing out 15 at us like it ain't no thang.

Now, I have seen 9-grain bread before. I even recently saw a 12-grain, which itself is a vast improvement over 9. But 15 is just above and beyond all expectations. In baking such a loaf, grains may have in fact been created soley to match-up with the bread's name.

I mean, just imagine if tomorrow Burger King announced its follow-up to the Triple Whopper would be..... the Octuple Burger. You would shit. Your. PANTS. The fact that Burger King would skip 4 levels of beefiness without a rational basis would numb the mind. Warm the soul? A faint possibility. Smell delicious? Take that shit to the bank and CASH IT because it is assured to be the truth.

Fair enough, my people. Fair enough.