Sit­ting here in the recliner, drink­ing my req­ui­site morn­ing liter of Lime Diet Coke (yeah, I know, bad for me), catch­ing up on blogs via Shrook, plan­ning out the boxes of stuff I need to pho­to­graph later today to sell on eBay, and the NPR sta­tion is talk­ing about the pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates that are now so pro­lif­i­cally plop­ping out of the ass of the American-​​lack-​​of-​​consensus.

And I hear the com­men­ta­tors talk­ing about the lat­est offer­ings’ wor­ries about col­lectibil­ity. “He’s going to need to work on his col­lectibil­ity, if he’s going to have any chance in the run-​​off elec­tion season.”

As my atten­tion was yanked from my lap­top to the radio by these arcane admon­ish­ments, I thought for a sec­ond about how that might work. Col­lectible trad­ing card games? Is there an online mar­ket­place? Is it those pin-​​back but­tons? We just came across a Nixon but­ton in my mother in law’s basement.

And then I turned off the radio, and went back to plan­ning eBay auc­tions.