I’ve noticed that a deli where we routinely get sandwiches has switched to using cheaper, flimsier paper to wrap them.

To compensate for the flimsy paper, the sandwich makers have started using two sheets of it.

I am sure an executive somewhere got a bonus for that. Saving money, donthca know.

And yet no money is being saved and customers aren’t any happier. Instead, time is wasted, processes are less efficient and everyone is unhappy.

That sums up the imperatives and manias of modern American business in one example.

My Exchange-based webmail accidentally got arranged in conversation view somehow.

I couldn’t find a goddamn thing. Couldn’t even tell when I got new mail. I mean, I saw the pop-up, but I had to do an actual search to find the email.

I know some people prefer that, but if I had to use it I’d spend two hours searching for each email. I’m sure I’d get better at it eventually and cut it down to one hour, but still even that is ridiculous.

When you keep three people imprisoned in your home against their will for a decade, you don’t get to have an “other side.”

There are crimes so terrible and grave that it invalidates everything else about you. Concentration camp executioner who pets puppies and helps old ladies cross streets? Who cares. That “concentration camp executioner” role is not some minor quibble. It defines you forever.

Life isn’t fair even to the despicable. And life doesn’t have any do-overs, take-backs and resets. It’s not a video game. Castro is worthless scum and the world would be better off without him, no matter how many puppies he pets or how much litter he picks up.