FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

It seems like most news articles nowadays mention racism, discrimination, or outright bigotry against various groups. Particularly if the actual subject is Donald Trump. But, of course, the Republican Party and European nativists also get their share of highlighting.

It's a bit disheartening at times. No, I'm not going to pull a namby-pamby "why can't we all just get along" thing, nor encourage my readers to "love everyone".

I myself do not love everyone.


Instead, I'm going to celebrate my own personal diversity by presenting a short list of people and groups that I hate, loathe, or despise, and would really like to see come a cropper.

In no particular order:

Ammon Bundy, Donald Trump, Texas, De Kommunistiese Eenheid Nederland Marxisten Leninisten (and its veterans now underground in De Socialistische Partij), Pegida, the ANC, anti-vaxxers, Southern Baptist Christianity, vegans, owners of rugged macho cars, food-missionaries, gun nuts, gun control freaks, e-yuppies, anti-smokers, parents of spoiled brats, dog-owners who don't pick up, little baggies of poo, health food, white folks who worship tofu, chihuahas, cigars with ridiculous macho names, pot smokers, religious nuts (most of the Deep South, large parts of the Mid-West, and rabid pockets on both coasts), aromatic pipe tobaccos, flavoured coffee, all herbal teas, macrobiotic anything, and racists (most of the Deep South, large parts of the Mid-West, and rabid pockets on both coasts).

I've probably left out well over a hundred other things that make me ill.
Lets face it, I am a hate-filled man, and there is much I despise.

But most of the time I don't think about these things.


Instead, I am usually thinking of nice bright cheerful things, like milk-tea, snackies, flowers, furry animals, sex, Latakia tobacco, aged Virginias (with or without Perique as one of the significant components of the blend), fine peaty Scotch whisky, semi-fermented teas, women, surface feel, brush-strokes showing tension and controlled termination, shades of ink and the spotty flecks where the brush skipped over the texture of the paper, angles, curves, symmetry, dimension, warmth, contrasting hues in wood grain, semi-translucent depth that indicates old briar, Nabokov, O. Henry, H. H. Munro, Rudyard Kipling, fatty pork, fried food, dim sum, rambunctious stuffed animals, soft hands, sparkling eyes, intense blues and greens, lovely breasts, baked goods and flaky pastries, Holland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, weird things I've recently read, and stuff to look up either on Wikipedia or in various foreign language dictionaries.

It is a pity that news articles seldom mention these.

The world would be a far better place if the media catered more to vibrant middle-aged pipe smokers. As, I am sure upon reflection, you will agree.



I never think about parking. I live in San Francisco, it just isn't an issue.




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