I visited my barber on Friday.
The foggy mirror in my bathroom made it clear to me that it was beyond time to get my hair and beard back under control.
As usual, my favorite barber (the only one I trust with my full beard) threatened to charge me double, as he does each time I put off the visit until fear of being mistaken as the Wild Man of Borneo forces my hand.
Also as usual, I arrived to find three other guys "of a certain age" waiting ahead of me. Since I always enjoy an opportunity to avoid work, I took my seat anyhow, ready for the usual grumpy old men conversations.
Unlike the usual, however, the mildly obscene banter in the shop seemed different this time. Trump's name came up, but not in defense of some stupid thing he said. Instead, the topics of conversation were about high health insurance costs for those old farts' children and grandchildren. North Korea came up, as well, and comments were not complimentary where Trump was concerned. One white-haired guy mentioned his military service in Korea in the 50s, and called Donald Trump an obscene name.
In fact, unlike any other time I've sat waiting for my haircut, not a single word of defense for the Dotard in Chief was heard from anyone in the place, although the usual mild insults tossed around the room were the same as usual.
Anyhow, I'm back to my sometimes resemblance of an older, bearded college professor again. That's OK. My hair and beard will grow back to a more typical representation of my actual curmudgeonly self soon enough.
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Against His teachings. Against His Spirit. (Against His 'spirit'.) What He stands for/represents. Against that.
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One of our guys is Jesus in Suburbia.
Hekate.
that Fucking Moron has now accepted Jesus because when a bunch of right wing bigoted republicans asked him if he wanted them to pray for him he said 'sure.'
Translation, "Sure, what the fuck. Who gives a shit,."
THAT Michele Bachmann ?
Still...
By the way, I told the barber that I'd pay him double if he actually made me look halfway good. He said, "I'm not a freaking miracle worker." So, he got his usual exorbitant fee.
He wanted it to cover his ears, style du jour. My uncle would appear from the other room and gesture to cut the back short and all over really. Then Dean would start sobbing. I said, "yeah, yeah, okay." As in 'yeah, right'. My aunt would be sitting with us at the kitchen table consoling Dean telling him I would do it my way and not his dad's.
One time I did bring it up almost to the tips of his ears and he kept his knitted cap on in class. Teacher asked him why he left it on, if he was not feeling well. He told her his ears were showing from his haircut. Kiddos!
Dean used to call me his 'barbra'. 
(+Memory Eternal, Dean+)
She was mortified, but had no idea how to fix it. That was back in the poverty days. The barber fixed it just fine. But, below is my very favorite barber story:
I used to let my hair grow until "it stopped by itself," as predicted in the song "Hair." I don't think I got it cut for about four years. Then, on a trip to Iowa, of all places, the former wife and I were staying at a hotel with an indoor pool. It was October. I wanted to take advantage of the pool, but a big sign said, "Guests with long hair must wear bathing caps." Since my hair was about middle back length, I assumed that applied to me.
Now, in Iowa in October, buying a bathing cap was impossible. I tried several places. So, what to do? Well, there was a barber shop in the hotel, luckily enough, so I walked in and took my seat in the chair. The nice barber lady asked how I'd like my hair cut. "Off," I said. "Short." "Are you sure?" she asked. "Yes," I replied. So all that hair went on the floor, and I went swimming. That was the end of my days as an obvious "filthy hippie." My former wife barely recognized me.
From then on, I've been getting a haircut every three or four months. That seems sufficient.
There is less on the floor every year. It's not even grey any more, it's white.
His sensationalism is falling aside and many in the GOP are seeing that he promised things that cannot happen. The new has worn off, and I suspect your barber shop companions are starting to see they have been conned.
Most GOPers are too proud and hard anti-liberal to listen to anything we say, so they will have to learn the hard way.
What actually could be a good side-effect of tRump is that some more sensible GOPers will begin to distrust Faux News and some talk radio hosts like Limbaugh! 
