Rand Paul, Curling away from reality

Well, a year and a half before the general election and it's already started.  First off there was Ted Cruz announcing that he was running for president.  When I heard that I thought, woah, that's embarrassing for the GOP since I'm sure they were really counting on the crackpot vote.  Then we got Rand Paul, you know, the plagiarist?  Maybe he doesn't understand that problem is going to come back and bite him in the nuts during primary season.  Can't you just hear one of his competitors saying during a debate "hey, is that you, or did someone else say that first?"

Actually, I don't think it makes much of a difference because I doubt very much if he's going to get the nomination, let alone be elected to the presidency.  Why?  The hair.  Do we really want a sitting President who has his hair permed?

It is a perm, isn't it?  Otherwise it would be just as curly on the sides.  Didn't anybody ever tell him it's not quite presidential?  Maybe it's supposed to make him look youthful.  It doesn't.  In fact all of those curls kind of remind me of Christopher Atkins in "The Blue Lagoon."  Could it possibly be that a very young age Rand Paul not only overdosed on that film, but may have, indeed, become obsessed with the hair?

Anyway, it doesn't really make much of a difference does it, since he isn't going to be elected.  Of course, we never know how things are going to curl, do we?  

Home Made Hair

About a week ago I dropped by Gamestop to see what used games they had for sale; it's a good place for inexpensive games.  The clerk was a young guy, maybe 18 or 19 and I know that when he saw me immediately registered me as an old fart, most likely buying a game for my grandson, of course he was wrong.  Had I been younger I'm sure I would have received a more enthusiastic sales approach.  Anyway, what I found more interesting then his lack of salesmanship was his hair.  It was stripped, orange, blond, and brown and the stripes were blended together.  It looked like he had naturally tri-colored hair. This was obviously something he'd paid to have done.  I'm serious, this kid had really great looking hair, unlike a lot of hair that I see.  I'm in retail, so I see a lot of hair.

There is a world of difference between professional hair and what I call "home made hair."  You know what I'm talking about.  You've seen those people who attempt to copy a style from a magazine or video and utterly fail.  They're trying to look like somebody they aren't.  Let me give you an example, there's this young girl who works the service desk at my local Giant Supermarket and she has more hair extensions on her head then is conceivably possible.  I'm serious.  It looks as though her "big" hair is mutating into something large enough to eat the Brooklyn Bridge.  When she turns her head it all moves as one unit, which can be a little frightening.  I was going to take a picture but I couldn't get far enough back to get all the hair in the shot and still let you see her face.

If you cut it, it will grow

This stripping thing seems to be really popular now.  I see a lot of it, boys and girls, men and women, and it's fairly easy to spot who's sat in a stylist's chair and who's done it in the kitchen, or the bathroom.  You know, 'home made hair."  There are times when I really have to bite my tongue to keep from laughing: when the stripes are irregular, or they look more like dots and dashes, as though some one's been practicing Morse Code on their head.  Sort of like an SOS except this most likely translates to HMH: Home Made Hair.