Small things 20 August

• Imagine if there were drive-thru therapists. "Welcome to Shrink-in-a-box, can I take your disorder?"
• "Voting isn't marriage. It's public transport. You're not waiting for "the one". You're getting on the bus. And if there isn't one going exactly to your destination, you don't stay home and sulk. You take the one that's going closest to where you want to be." ~Mohamad Safa
• You said life would get back to normal after June. Julyed!
• I wish that people who are passionate about vaccines were instead just as passionate about poverty, the environment, victims of abuse. Then maybe some serious shit might get done.
• The irony of antivaxxers saying they "don't want to be part of an experiment", not realizing they are now the control group.
• On 10 March, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell makes the first phone call ever. Moments later he gets a scam call from the "feds" threatening him with arrest for owing back taxes. 
• Chiron. Half man, half horse. Famous for knowledge of medicine. Basically the centaur for disease control.
• What do you call someone who never passes gas in public? A private tutor.
• Ever notice that when you witness bad driving you always want to get a look at the driver? Talk about looking for evidence to support your biases.
• When a spouse or other family member or friend starts venting to you, I think it would be courteous to ask, "Are we listening or problem-solving? Do you want comfort or solutions?" Because sometimes they just want to vent. They don't want your opinion.
• Emotional baggage. Could be called a griefcase.