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I make! Chocolate chocolate chip peanut butter chocolate chip cookies edition

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That’s a mouthful, isn’t it?  I may have done that on purpose.  I may have done that on purpose as well.  Yay!

So I’m really fond of chocolate.  I think we had already established that.  But I’m also really fond of peanut butter, especially in cookie form.  It used to be a struggle at one of the local markets that sells both very good chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter cookies.  Which box should I get?  I could always get both boxes.  But that feels toooo extravagant.  Two boxes of cookies??  No…then I would have to eat one of each cookie each time I wanted a cookie.  Tooooo extravagant.  I am not living a life of wanton excess.  Definitely cannot have two cookies each time you mean to only have one cookie.

But the problem is solved!  Kind of.  I mean, if I ever go to that market for cookies again, I will probably continue to have the same problem with buying two boxes of cookies and then eating a minimum of one cookie each at a sitting.  But, I found someone who had the ingenious idea of smashing a peanut butter cookie and chocolate chip cookie together into one cookie!  And even better, they made the peanut butter cookie as a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie!  And even even better better, they made the chocolate chip cookie as a chocolate chocolate chip cookie!  Huzzah!

Anyway, I made some.  They’re good.  The peanut butter cookie is nice and peanutty.  I’ve had that problem with lots of different recipes.  The peanut taste is not pronounced enough so you just have…cookie.  I mean, cookies are nice and all, but I wanted a specific type of cookie.  Not generic cookie.

The chocolate chocolate chip cookie is also quite good.  I meant to make it chocolate peanut butter chip, but I couldn’t find any pb chips the day I went to the store, so chocolate chocolate chip it was.  Which is totally fine.  Since I’m quite fond of chocolate.  But next time, I might try and plan ahead to make chocolate pb chip cookies.

Why idiots often rise to the top

Guys.  I think I’ve inadvertently stumbled upon why the phenomenon of how idiots (as opposed to someone more qualified) are often found in positions of power occurs.  (I’m thinking of you certain possible GOP presidential candidate, certain former Venezuelan president, certain former Afghani president, a whole slew of former Taiwanese presidents, certain managers I’ve had the pleasure of witnessing in the act of managing, etc.)  Wanna know, wanna know??

Ahem…it’s because idiots are less dense than the surrounding matter and therefore, they will rise to the top (this totally needs to be on a shirt or a poster or something).

TADA!!  Makes so much sense, doesn’t it?

Think about it, say in a sea of normal, everyday employees, somehow the one with the least common sense and often the least courtesy toward fellow employees, the least idea about how a project should be managed, the least technical knowledge, the biggest ego, the most insecure, etc is somehow the one to be promoted to a management position.  Why?  Because everyone else with common sense is weighed down by their common sense (and technical knowledge and common courtesy).  The idiot managers don’t have (much) of that stuff, so they are relatively less dense and they rise to the top.

Have you ever thought about the expression “filled with hot air”?  I would argue that the idiot managers also tend to be filled with hot air.  Gasses at warmer temperatures are less dense than gasses at lower temperatures.  So again, idiots are less dense than the surrounding matter and therefore can rise to the top.

But what of the rare non-idiot manager, you ask.  Yes.  Those do exist.  I have worked for a few of them.  And well…you can get a metal pin to float on water.  Metal is denser than water so you wouldn’t think that would be possible.  But surface tension!  It’s probably surface tension that allows these rare non-idiot managers to achieve their management positions.  I guess the surface tension is all the employees with sense who like to work with caring, good managers.

The problem with this is that if you disturb the surface tension the pin sinks as you would expect it to.  I’ve unfortunately seen this with good managers too.  I guess they’re just too full of common sense (technical knowledge, common courtesy, actual care for their people, etc) to stay afloat.  It’s…so sad.