explanations yesterday's post explains a bunch of things. like why so many people watch bad tv shows. the shows are better than what the viewer could make. so they must be good. i listen to pop trash music. i freely admit i'm not qualified to judge the difference between the good stuff and the mediocre. i'm smart. it's not very often i meet people who are smarter than i am. and i'm usually deliriously happy when i do. i know many people who are less than average smarts. they know i'm the smarter. but not how much. and this is where things get kinda interesting. some people assume that i'm pure genius. which is pretty awkward. cause i've met real geniuses. i don't consider myself to be one. others just plain don't care. yeah, you're smarter than me. so what? the last group assumes that i'm just a little smarter than they are. and some of them seem to make it their personal mission to prove that 1) i'm not as smart as i think i am. which is probably true given the research mentioned yesterday. and 2) i'm just a little smarter than they are. which their "proofs" prove otherwise. unfortunately, they're not smart enough to realize this. they're like rude little children whose parents haven't trained them to not bother big people. usually they can just be ignored. usually. except they vote. stupidly. well, that's not fair. their decision making apparatus is equivalent to a coin toss. a one sided coin toss. fortunately, there are approximately equal numbers of two-headed coin tossers as two-tailed coin tossers. sigh.  ¶ 8:00 AM