[High Praise! to Spootville]

Logical arguments:

“Minimum wages are stupid”
“The minimum wage should be hugely high”

If you are not going to make one of those two arguments, then you must be admitting that the reason your proposed minimum wage is not higher is because having it too high would hurt the economy. And so you’ve settled on an arbitrary number.

Can it be any other way? Are there any arguments for $15 that you couldn’t use for $1 million without admitting that minimum wages harm the economy?

Hadn’t seen these guys in a while, but this is pretty funny.

You hear about this? Apparently, rodeo clowns are now turning on Obama. I thought they were like his number one constituency after the morbidly lazy.

Anyway, I agree that a rodeo shouldn’t be about politics; it should be about horses or something. And maybe lassoing. But I don’t go to rodeos to learn about politics; that’s what I go to mindless action flicks starring Matt Damon for.

So Obama gave a rare press conference Friday, and he had a lot of asinine things to say. Obamacare is like an iPad. The NSA spying is like doing the dishes or something. His presidency is like a toddler playing with a power drill (he didn’t say that analogy; I think it was implied). But he also said this interesting thing: When asked how he could just suspend a provision of Obamacare willy nilly without having it go through Congress, he justified it by saying he did it in “consultation with businesses.”

Did you know that was a thing? You can just do an end run around the Constitution by consulting with businesses? Plus, who knew Obama even knew how to talk to businesses; they have all these words like “costs,” “profit,” and “budget” that are completely foreign concepts to him.

Man, I hope it’s a real thing that a president can do just whatever he wants as long as he consults with businesses first because a Republican will certainly get more use out of it than a Democrats. I mean, Democrats are like this abusive boyfriend to business (“I’m only taxing you because I love you!”), but businesses actually like Republicans. Think of what can get done in the future.

“Uh, Mr. President, we see you unilaterally suspended the minimum wage.”

“Yes. You see, I consulted with businesses and they didn’t like the minimum wage.”

“And drilling operations are going on everywhere now.”

“Well, business said they really like to drill for oil, so I told them to stop worry about any regulations on that.”

“And you suspended the elections.”

“Businesses were a bit worried Democrats would get elected.”

“Also, you imprisoned all of the New York Times in Gitmo.”

“Yeah, while businesses didn’t tell me to do that, I felt it was heavily implied.”

Wow, Obama is giving me a lot of interesting precedents for when I become president in 2017.

I’ve written about the Google Chromecast, twice, and think it’s a pretty good device. Apparently, a lot of other people do, too. Google sold out pretty quick, and Amazon has a 2-3 month wait on them.

And that gave me an idea: eBay.

Not to buy one. To sell one. Or several.

Only, I kinda think I want to have my own. And, I need more than one in order to sell one. So, how to sell something I don’t have? That’s easy to answer: get one. Or several.

But, they’re sold out right?

Well… maybe.

I noticed that when I went to Best Buy and looked it up, the local store in Columbus showed “unavailable” as did the next nearest store, in Auburn. Actually, it’s in Opelika, but they think it’s cooler to say Auburn. War Damn Eagle, I suppose.

Anyway, I expanded the search, and what do you know. The store in Montgomery, 84 miles away, is the only store that doesn’t show “unavailable.” But, it’s “in-store only.” You can’t buy it online, you have to go to the store.

So, I hopped in the car and drove my happy ass over to Montgomery. The thing is, I was there just a few days earlier. I had gone to a baseball game in Montgomery the previous weekend, but didn’t think to check the Best Buy there. I thought about it on the way back, and drove the extra couple of miles taking the route through Auburn so I could stop by the Best Buy there. And, as mentioned, Best Buy in Auburn/Opelika was out.

So, this past week, I went to the Best Buy in Montgomery, walked in, and said I wanted a Chromecast.

“Oh, we’re sold out of those.”

“Your Website says you have them.” I showed him. “I drove over from Columbus for one.”

“Um, you should’ve called first.”

“As much as y’all sell technology, y’all ought to be able to use it to keep your Website up to date. The other stores say they’re out.”

“Um, let me check stock to make sure.”

He checks.

“We’re out of stock.”

“Alright.”

I left, went to McDonald’s, and had a Big Mac, trying to figure out if I wanted to let anyone know what I had done.

So, now you know what I done. Only, did I drive 84 miles for nothing, or 84 miles for a Big Mac? Unless McDonald’s wants to give me Big Macs for life, I’m not sure that one’s any better than the other.