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Late night thought #2

I really don’t like it when people pedantically correct me or anyone on the classification of tomatoes. I know they are botanically a fruit but they are legally a vegetable. I used to think it was silly for our laws to contradict botanists until I realized botanists are weird. Strawberries aren’t berries, but watermelons and zucchinis are. That’s right. Zucchinis are fruits, so are cucumbers, so I suppose pickles are too. Strawberries are still fruits of course, they are classified as an “associate fruits”. So if you are one of those people who constantly points out the fruity nature of tomatoes because you think we should only refer to the plants we eat by their botanical classification, all I ask is you remain consistent. Try going around calling pumpkins berries and asking for “strawassociatefruit shortcake”. Is that ridiculous? No more so than calling a tomato a fruit.

Late night thought #1

I’m not gonna write a diary so I guess this will do just fine. Every night, as a struggle to become tired enough to sleep, some strange thoughts cross my mind. I am gonna post them here. So I shall write my first thought below:

I think there must be a collective nature to the morality of warfare. Armies used to line up in bright colors and take turns firing at each other. Now, even countries that many would consider moral disguise themselves and shoot men from hundreds of yards away. We can justify this because our enemies do it too, and it’s nearly impossible to win a war against people who have different morals than you, thus we lower our own. I suppose it only takes a single party to lower humanity’s moral standards, but it takes all parties to raise them.


“I say this turf is small, but it’s all we got. I wanna hold it like we always held it: with skin! But if they say switchblades, I’ll get a switchblade.”

-Riff (West Side Story)