Conjunction Function

It’s also a verb: “I try and google every day!”

The _and_ takes the place of _to_ in the excuse phrase _try to_

You should feel free to interchange your prepositions and conjunctions. After all listening is meant to be active, and its up to your listener to figure out what you mean.
I’m only here for the coffee.

Two Freedoms

The internut consists of two distinct camps. The social chromatography is simple to run. Are they a First Amendment or Second Amendment stain? Oh, and an easy self-exam:

would you rather fight(argue) with the advocate of which amendment

The pen may be mightier, but that’s in the land of metaphor, not Kansas.

Perceptual Fallacy

Standard relationship denoted:

scarcity => choice => cost

Imagine what happens when your choice is constrained by someone else’s perception of scarcity. A current scarcity isn’t a future scarcity. The more your perception of current vs future is subject to someone else’s view, the less stable your choice.