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Trash Talk

No this is not a new Jerry Springer wannabe episode but my observations about 'garbage out' portion of our lives..

1.  Taking out the trash - at my home when I take my trash can to the curb I have noticed I am one of the few who has very little to throw out.  Small can and not all 3 cans each week.  But I pay my trash hauler the same.  Hmm I guess my way of donating to this faltering economy as the others help with their conspicuous consumption causing each can to flow over its max limit causing their lids to pop upward.

2.  White house press forums - pure Trash Talk.  No other way of explaining that shower from the podium.

3. All of our devices  - with stay at home the world's personal computing devices are now full of the same junk.  Some weirdo doing hand tricks or animals wandering aimlessly through malls, messages of hope and despair and rants from those that officially lost it.  Whose gonna clean? How about buying the latest and biggest and newest smartphone to deal with this annoying problem?  Consumption anyone?

4.  Asinine Canine Owners - a license to poop and not pickup.  Most American neighborhoods now inundated with late night dog strollers that leave their organic waste for others to step in.  Turds R Us.

5. Space junk - after spreading the virus now the Chinese are literally trying to bonk us with uncontrolled trash raining down from up above.  We are not talking a junior mint here but big honking tons of space debris from a Chinese owned satellite that burned up.  Dumping somewhere on planet earth at a location near you.  Chances are it will hit the only eye witness in some remote part of the Atlantic kayaking to get away from the Covid.  Dang!

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