Many people waited in line all night for the newest iPhone and Harry Potter books. Some flock in droves to monster truck rallies and pro wrestling matches and evangelical megachurches. All of those things make me go WTF?

...I received an email from my cell phone carrier that said "We are switching to a new network and your current phone will no longer be covered," which was OK with me, because my current phone had issues. Many issues.

So I ordered an iPhone 6s online and went to the store and picked it up.

When I was doing my research on the phone I wanted, I found a YouTube video of the 6s, new when the phone was first released, and it featured the woman who bought the phone showing the lines at the Apple store. When the doors opened, the employees were lined up like a gauntlet and started hooting and whooping and clapping like trained seals.

I worked at Apple as a contractor, off and on, for about a year and a half. This was during the John Scully years, prior to the return of Steve Jobs, so the "cult of personality" was still reasonably intact, but there was also much ugliness and uncertainty. Went to the rest room one day and when I came back a security guard was at my desk and pointed to my radio and said "When you leave your desk you may want to lock that up." Yes, there was a rash of employees stealing from each other.

So I got an older (but new, not reconditioned) version of the iPhone because it does what I wanted it to do, but the minute i bought it I went into a rant about the people who stand in line all night for the latest and greatest iPhone, who then wave it around in fits of ecstasy as if their life's purpose had suddenly revealed itself.

I figure that if it makes them happy and I don't know any of them personally, no harm, no foul.

But for me, I make phone calls, and take pictures of our cats and what I had for lunch or dinner, and check my email and social media accounts.

And this phone does that, and I didn't stand in line for it, and I didn't pay $900 for it.

I wanted, the small one through Spectrum, came USPS. Called Spectrum. They down loaded my info off my IPAD. End of story, except I took the $14 deal because I use my IPAD and Mini most of the time.

Why was I hearing Russia and collusion BEFORE the election?

Just like in marketing, I think he says "no collusion" so often b/c until there's something to counter that narrative it will stick in people's minds.

Then he's innocent of any and all charges leveled against him. That is the bar and why he repeats it so often.

The fans are now relieved of the burden of examining all the (non-contract signed in blood) evidence piling up that he's a piece of shit criminal, because they've been told often that's the only bit of evidence that matters.