We have all had a similar experience I am sure.  We really enjoy watching someone or listening to a celebrity, but then you get a closeup view and they are not a person you would ever want to know.  It happens.  We watch and watch and then see a quote or police blotter or a twitter rant, and that person’s persona dissolves into an ugly puddle at the bottom of your brain’s drain.

It happened to me this weekend when I responded to Susie Ochs’s, @sfsooz, tweet about the “loser” president-elect.  She is the executive editor at Macworld and she took exception to my suggestion that she should stick with tech.  Well, the suggestion was just that, but she sent some tweets about being a female and not being silenced, blah, blah, blah.  She is a tech writer.  If I want to read about politics there are plenty of Twitter feeds that supply that content.  If I go to tech, I go to those feeds.  Why would I want to sift through content to find what interests me that particular day.

It is not just Susie Ochs, other tech tweeters also have a severe liberal bias.  I have looked the other way because I like their tech insights, but I think I am done looking the other way.  I’ll listen to them–they are nearly always non-political in their podcasts–but I am no longer going to follow them.  Why should I continue to read their drivel about politics when it is their tech insights that interest me.

Here is a list of tech people who I would encourage others to unfollow:

Susie Ochs, @sfooz, Mark Gurman, @markgurman, Marco Arment, @marcoarment, John Siracusa, @siracusa, John Siracusa, @siracusa, Chris Breen, @bodyofbreen, Erfon Elijah, @erfon, Leander Kanye, @lkahney.

Other blatanatly left people I am going to unfollow:

Catherine Fugate, @katherinefugate, Michael Feldman, @myfeldman, Stephen King, @stephenking, Mark Hamill, @hamillhimself.  (Note:   Michael Feldman’s show is blatantly, liberally biased–but he is just so funny–I’ll miss his tweets though.)

I look forward to blindly listening to their podcasts without all the political drama.  All the best to techies and left leaning entertainers in the new year.

But wait!  There is more!  Had these tech writers looked into Hillary’s server vulnerabilities once The NY Times broke the story in 2015, they could have informed the world from a professional point of view.  Instead, tech valley let the story be told by political hacks and Hillary continued toward the election year.  Now, tech writers slander the president-elect they helped put into office.

Maybe tech writers should look inward to find the cause of their discontent.

One final point needs to be made.  My Twitter feed has equal parts left and right from news organizations and political sources.  Bernie, Trump, Hillary, Warren, Biden, Pence, Ryan, and even Donna Brazile are among the 200+ people and organizations I follow.  I like to hear both sides of the issue and do not live in an echo chamber.

I am not a pod person.

Does anyone else vaguely remember a thin skin on hotdogs 50 years ago?  I’m not sure if it is a real memory, or if maybe it was one hotdog among the hundreds (thousands?) eaten as a child.  Hotdogs today are prepared from mystery meat, cooked and formed (or formed and cooked?), and then hurried to grocery stores where they can remain viable nearly as long as a Twinkie.

I like a grilled hotdog as much as the next guy, but I really like a “dirty water dog” served on the streets of New York City.  The water isn’t really dirty, but the name is a holdover from days when maybe it was a bit more true.

Speaking of New York City hotdogs, has anyone tried to buy one that is not marked halal?  It turns out that most hotdog stands are owned and operated by Muslims–not that there is anything wrong with that.  (A bit of Seinfeld.)  Decline of the Dog talks about the evolution of the hotdog cart, but don’t read it on an empty stomach or you’ll raid your refrigerator.

And, how does a person spell this childhood treat?  Either way is the answer according to a search of the internet, but I’ll go with hot dog.  Hot Dog History claims two words so I’ll change my spelling preference too.  Whether hotdog or hot dog is correct, it sounds much better than the original “dachshund sausages.”

And then there is this guy Weiner.  Kids in my neighborhood called each other weiners, but it was all about a certain male appendage and it was always funny calling someone a weiner, or chasing someone after being called a weiner.  We were kids.  That’s what kids did.  We taunted each other and name calling was just normal.  Being called a weiner never hurt anyone, at least until the last few years.  Being called a weiner now has a different meaning.  Liar.  Exhibitionist.  Someone who endangers his own child.  Loser.

But, where was I?  Oh yes.  I have four dachshund sausages in my refrigerator and four buns.  I see a plan coming together.