THE CASE OF THE PURLOINED TOILET PAPER, and other ironies.
It was a dream I thought never would be realized. But there I was outside of the convention center with my ticket for the CES in hand. A ticket I had kept unspoiled between the pages of my copy of, Free-market Economics For Dummies which I had picked up at a garage sale and kept in my small collection of unintentional irony. I also had its companion, Christianity for Dummies. I was not there for the chance to see previews of electronic wizardry. No, I was there because Ivanka Trump was to give the keynote speech on, (are you ready for this?), The Future of Work. Who else could be an expert on the subject of work? This speech, which I intended to capture on my cellphone, would be the capstone of my collection. I had no idea that that gem of irony could possibly be exceeded. The speech was predictably unremarkable through the haze of righteous weed, though I would find much to laugh at, and had plenty of company. I have no idea how many of my colleagues in the cheap seats were exper...