Small things 20 November

• Under capitalism, it's normal to let children go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of access to healthcare. But the idea that billionaires could just be less rich, not poor, not struggling, just less rich, is considered insane.  ~Martha Kelly
• I asked Siri how many shopping days left until Christmas and she said "Don't bother, everything's sold out."
• You know you're old when someone writes "In the late 1900s" and you start to get offended.
• Cigarettes are plant based, and they'll kill you. Just sayin'.....
• Homeowner associations are bizarre. You buy a home and some person two doors down gets to tell you that you're not allowed to put a 14 foot high inflatable Santa on your front lawn.
• Senior checklist. Porch? Check. White hair? Check. Gun? Check (OK, it's a water gun). Rocking chair? Be right back.
• Doesn't 'never give up on your dreams' suggest that we should nap more often?
• Nothing makes a capitalist happier than hiring an immigrant worker and watching you get mad at the immigrant while the capitalist sees increased profits.
• At some point a kid is going to see a picture of an old touch-tone phone and wonder why they needed hashtags.
• Often you will never know if the place you bought or rented once hosted a dead person.
• The earth can't be flat. If it was, it would have been made into a tourist attraction by now. Also, the cats would have pushed everything off the edge.
• If we filled a giant underground vat with just cooked pizza rolls, they would hold onto their heat for months. Energy storage problem solved.