{"id":6934,"date":"2011-11-12T02:04:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T08:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2011-11-12T06:35:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T12:35:39","slug":"things-i-dont-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=6934","title":{"rendered":"Things I Don&#8217;t Get"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few things to ponder this beautiful Saturday morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why do normally modest women, women who wouldn&#8217;t dream of hitting the beach in a bikini, buy formal dresses that flaunt their boobs? (not a complaint, just a question) And why is significant cleavage considered appropriate in a formal setting but potentially questionable or even slutty in other settings, such as work or school?<\/li>\n<li>Why do we still observe daylight savings time in most parts of the country? Do you know anyone who thinks it&#8217;s a good idea? And for that matter, why are we still the Neanderthals who use the English measurement system instead of metric?<\/li>\n<li>Why are donut shops around here run almost exclusively by Asians? (again, not a complaint, just a question)<\/li>\n<li>Why am I willing to contribute to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/spec-rel\/110911aab.html\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor&#8217;s new on-campus stadium campaign <\/a>but not to its scholarship fund? If I remember correctly, I went to maybe three football games as a student, but Baylor convinced me to enroll with a generous scholarship package. Seems like I got a bit more benefit from the latter.<\/li>\n<li>Why is obesity skyrocketing in our country? And why do so few people seem to care? We&#8217;re gradually ostracizing and limiting the smokers enough to force people to quit, which is awesome, but as a society we&#8217;re taking the opposite approach with obesity.<\/li>\n<li>Why does $25 buy a cheap sit-down dinner for two in America but nearly a month of food for a child in Africa?<\/li>\n<li>Why do baseball players, fans, and managers continue to tolerate the wildly inconsistent strike zone used by the various umpires throughout the league? The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawk-Eye\" target=\"_blank\">Hawk-Eye technology used in tennis<\/a> could solve that problem right now, but it seems that everyone prefers not knowing where the strike zone actually is on a given night.<\/li>\n<li>Why is it legal for men to run around without a shirt but not for women (except in New York City and some other places)? Many men have bigger boobs than many women. They&#8217;re called moobs. They&#8217;re not cool, but they happen. Without the hairy chests, you might not be able to tell the difference.<\/li>\n<li>Why does the US government still mint pennies? I&#8217;d rather have everything rounded to the nearest nickel. Pennies get on my nerves.<\/li>\n<li>Why do so many people, especially in Texas, hate Obama so much? I can understand disagreeing with some of his views. So do I. But it&#8217;s amazing to me how quickly people label him a foreigner, even though he&#8217;s published his Hawaiian birth certificate, and a socialist, even though many of them don&#8217;t even know what that term really means, and a Muslim, even though he&#8217;s been a documented member of a Christian church for decades, and even the Anti-Christ, even though that term (as they understand it, in the Left Behind sense) is an product of the American evangelical church rather than the Bible itself. I guess people just believe what they want to believe. <\/li>\n<li>Why roaches? (I&#8217;m looking at You, God.)<\/li>\n<li>Why do so many people use Christianity as an excuse to hate and look down upon people who disagree with them?<\/li>\n<li>Why do labor contract negotiations in the airline industry generally take 2-5 years?<\/li>\n<li>Why don&#8217;t we have the ability to vote online? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2011%2F11%2F08%2Ftech%2Fweb%2Fonline-voting%2Findex.html&#038;h=uAQEqAQRK\" target=\"_blank\">this article tries to answer the question<\/a>, but I still think the explanation is flimsy)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What about you? What exactly don&#8217;t you get?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few things to ponder this beautiful Saturday morning&#8230; Why do normally modest women, women who wouldn&#8217;t dream of hitting the beach in a bikini, buy formal dresses that flaunt their boobs? 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