{"id":2108,"date":"2016-11-22T13:35:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T18:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2016-11-22T13:35:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T18:35:46","slug":"22-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/22\/22-2\/","title":{"rendered":"22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Write about your recycling habits..<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My recycling habits…..ummm, I try to do the \u201cright things,\u201d but it\u2019s tough for me in my current situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t haul shit (and there\u2019s the George Carlin bit about \u201cshit\u201d versus \u201cstuff\u201d) to the recycling center; I don\u2019t drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, of course, the news outlets will be recycling shit from 1963. (And ignoring that the President remembers it about as well as I remember Reagan being shot….)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do try to use up what I have. Case-in-point: the prompt a few days ago about describing the year month-by-month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote a lot<\/strong>, but none of it really fit with the prompt. It was also a lot of bitching about my string of horrible jobs. I will probably use bits of it as I spew more bits from this scarred brain of mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recycle other things, too. Leftovers. Like that strange Korean beef my wife didn\u2019t like; that went into my lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is that really recycling, though? Good question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You look at the economics on it, until very recently, the only thing that it made any economic sense to recycle was alumnium. I haven\u2019t bothered to check whether that\u2019s still true. I would guess that with the collapse in the oil market, it probably still is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Green <strike>Energy<\/stike>Alchemy Economy we were so loudly promised in 2008 got knocked off the shelf by one of the fracking-induced earthquakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There haven\u2019t been increases in carbon taxes. Al Gore\u2019s vaunted cap-and-trade scheme didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this was the<\/strong><\/em> answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, that, along with CFLs from GE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m trying to decide if there\u2019s anything else to say. I\u2019m rather surprised I didn\u2019t get unfriended by someone who proudly proclaimed that she was pruning her Facebook friends list of anyone who disagreed with her politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Disclaimmer: there aren\u2019t many who agree with me, and that\u2019s okay. Hell, my wife and I disagree on a lot. Funny story, though. One of her professors is a local politician with whom I got into a Twitter spat years ago. A different friend posted something she\u2019d written in the local birdcage liner about how to fix the Electoral College. She said pretty much the same stuff I\u2019ve been saying for years.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It does take me back to college where I was accused by a counterpart in the Student Government Association of being far too egalitarian for anyone to like. The take was along the lines of, \u201ceverybody would get what they need, but nobody would be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to things like recycling, the same is true. I probably bother the hell out of \u201cboth sides,\u201d as I lack the faith of one side, as well as the skepitcism of the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever. It\u2019s who I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would say, \u201cso recycle me<\/strong>!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the medical establishment won\u2019t even take my blood, courtesy some beef eaten in England in 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Write about your recycling habits.. My recycling habits…..ummm, I try to do the \u201cright things,\u201d but it\u2019s tough for me in my current situation. I can\u2019t haul shit (and there\u2019s the George Carlin bit about \u201cshit\u201d versus \u201cstuff\u201d) to the recycling center; I don\u2019t drive. Today, of course, the news outlets will be recycling shit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}