It’s True: Apple is Ditching the Headphone Jack with the iPhone 7.

Looks like my next phone will be an Android, then. Fine with me.

How to Pick the Fastest Line at the Supermarket.

Some things I’ve observed, to add:

• Look for people holding checkbooks. Get out of those lines. That’s going to take a long time.

• Older cashiers and very young cashiers are slower. The fastest are non-chatty female cashiers who look older than high school but not 60+.

• Look for people holding coupons or with coupon books/folders etc. They will take a very long while to get them all out and almost always will argue over the total at the end. These lines are almost always the slowest. (And it will be 10x as slow if this is all combined with someone over 65.)

• Look at people’s fingers for nicotine stains or smell for people who smell like smoke. They often will ask for cigarettes. This typically requires a manager or a trip to the service desk. This will make the line crawl.

• Lines with women with kids are good. Kids make women clear out faster and men go slower. So, conversely, avoid lines that have men with kids.

• Avoid lines where people are buying alcohol, much un-bar-coded produce or any otherwise unusual or unlabeled item.

• Avoid lines with anyone texting, talking on a cell phone or even holding their phone. Chances are they will attempt to use it during the transaction process.

• Avoid lines with really old baggers (65+) or with managers bagging. Both are often really slow and will have you waiting after the transaction is done.

I’ll update this if I think of anything else. If it offends anyone, well, first I don’t really care and second, can’t change the facts on the ground just because you wish it were different.

Sometimes, I wish I had any skill at all for operational math. But then I think if I did, I would’ve had a really high chance of going into academia.

With apologies to friends in academia, but it pays poorly and chances are I would’ve become an adjunct and have hated my life.

So I dodged two bullets. Avoiding academia because of complete dyscalculia and inability to do anything beyond basic algebra* was the first.

The second was journalism. Even though I was a journalist and was offered a pretty good civilian journalist job at Charleston’s main daily paper in 1999, I turned it down simply because I was tired of journalism.

Being bad at math helped me make so much more money than I otherwise would have.

Being sick of journalism also saved me from a life of probable penury.

So much stupid luck involved in living.

*Though I can easily understand the concepts behind any math, and understand 100% the solution to a problem when it’s explained, just can’t work out anything myself.

The principal difference between Trump’s many scams and the rackets of the Clintons’ is that their extortions are socially-approved by neoliberalism and its connected class while Trump’s cross that line — they are too declassé, too low-rent, too blatant.

Only in Bizarro World could Democrats look at this and conclude that nothing is wrong at all with it.

Yes, sure, it’s all legal. It’s all above board. It crosses no line that matters to neoliberalism and its defenders.

But is it moral? Should we order a society this way? Should we condone a major politician’s family being allowed to take $18 million from the oh-so-venerable for-profit school industry?

Trump and Clinton are not the same. I am not arguing that. Trump (except in failing to fill his bombing-brown-people quota) would be a far worse president than Clinton.

However, pretending there’s nothing morally disgusting and indecent about their behavior and the entire system that enables it makes me wonder why it’s so important that people defend something that’s obviously wrong.