America loves heterosexual marriage, I mean its the only way to do it without making baby Jesus angry! Which is extremely important when we rely on him for the flooding of the Mississippi, success in war, and fertility. Yet people seem to want to attach more importance to this oldest of rituals, making the most solemn of vows center ring at societies freak show. Marriage without reason seems to be the soup of the day for modern culture. No matter a persons maturity, economic security, social stability, or level of actual seriousness they should marry if love is involved.
Of course in those situations where two sensible adults decide to make the ultimate commitment with clear heads and a sensible attitude it is a good thing, but almost nobody does this. Marriage has become nothing more then another rung in a increasingly antiquated courting process, when a couple moves beyond serious dating they look to marriage. Why? Can't one still be in love and yet still be completely unprepared for marriage, blundering into a new and alien territory with no desire to be there or the understanding to navigate it.
Maybe, perhaps, we as a society should start looking at marriage not purely as a expression of love, but as a expression of total compatibility. Through out ones life there are many individuals one will "love" yet you should only be marrying one person. The problem with this is a person can love another person yet still want to kill that person after living with them for a few months/years/decades. In short there are people you are compatible with, and there are people you will love, and there will be people you will want to marry, but you're so very stupid and don't deserve happiness so just give up. Go live in the mountains and hunt tourists and deer, live off the land, speak to the wind. Spend a unforgettable summer in the Andes robbing forgotten cities, and the fall spending your ill got gaines in a Moscow Brothel on whores and Heroin. Go from middle American City to City making right what once went wrong. Then once you have become self actualized through your worldly wandering, your bones ache and your soul is tired, come back to your home town and marry your sweetheart, because until then all happiness will allude you because you are weak.
6/10/2005
Social Security: I mean what's with that!
It was a dark and stormy night when FDR was visited by a dark apparition, the same one that had promised him limitless power in return for his legs, and he needed one more favor before he could get it. What was it? The answer is entirely sexual and I won't go into it, but they did talk about the creatures ideas on Social policy while cuddling and then he told him about his big "Social Security" plan, and I am almost sure that's how it all happened.
Now you know the rest of the story.
Well, fastforward to current times, where a group of law makers unite for one purpose and one purpose alone. That purpose is to choose a few broad issues that apply to everyone and make a lot of noise and faux rage to justify their pay checks and the degree of power we trust with them. It turns out that according to some politically motivated think tank, is there any other kind, thinks that in 2017 Social Security will start running at a deficit and it will be bankrupt by 2041. First why don't we wait 12 years to see if any real problem that requires legislation actually evolves as analysts say it might, and then in that 24 year period of deficit prior to bankruptcy you can choose a method of doing something about it. I mean what reason can a person put forward towards patching up a agency that might in 36 years go bankrupt if at the moment it is completely solvent.
Now congress wants to raise the retirement age to save SS for when all members of Congress will be dead by ( Strom Thurmond was the last of a breed, now all senators are built in with designed obsolescence). That removes the one real benefit of SS, it encourages the old to retire making room for new workers, that was the original point.
Anyway, I could go on all day but in short, SS isn't something to be concerned about right now, and is just a tool of Lazy Senators trying to get out of doing the real business of the people.
Now you know the rest of the story.
Well, fastforward to current times, where a group of law makers unite for one purpose and one purpose alone. That purpose is to choose a few broad issues that apply to everyone and make a lot of noise and faux rage to justify their pay checks and the degree of power we trust with them. It turns out that according to some politically motivated think tank, is there any other kind, thinks that in 2017 Social Security will start running at a deficit and it will be bankrupt by 2041. First why don't we wait 12 years to see if any real problem that requires legislation actually evolves as analysts say it might, and then in that 24 year period of deficit prior to bankruptcy you can choose a method of doing something about it. I mean what reason can a person put forward towards patching up a agency that might in 36 years go bankrupt if at the moment it is completely solvent.
Now congress wants to raise the retirement age to save SS for when all members of Congress will be dead by ( Strom Thurmond was the last of a breed, now all senators are built in with designed obsolescence). That removes the one real benefit of SS, it encourages the old to retire making room for new workers, that was the original point.
Anyway, I could go on all day but in short, SS isn't something to be concerned about right now, and is just a tool of Lazy Senators trying to get out of doing the real business of the people.
6/07/2005
Niche Alcohol: Absinthe
After the Success of sideways I have come to an unavoidable conclusion, America loves its niche alcohol. What's better then getting drunk? Getting drunk on some mystery liquor that makes you feel important and exotic, well more so then Alcohol already makes you feel. In short I will spend the rest of this article enlightening you on an Alcohol called Absinthe.
Absinthe was originally sold as a stomach worm tincture back in the days when you could just bottle some odd tasting liquor or opiate and call it a tonic. Used by the French Army during their war in Algiers in the 1840's to help fight off heat stroke and stomach ailments. The soldiers, being poor uneducated Frenchmen brought back their love for this strange green drink and began indulging in it to the point of Caligula-like excess. By the end of the century it was the most widely produced and drunken spirits in the world.
The most famous of brands was Pernod, which unlike many other producers of far cheaper absinthes, didn't use dangerous additives like Silver Nitrate to create the drinks superior appearance and Louche. The Louche is a French word describing the affects of mixing water with Absinthe (which was part of its preparation), A proper louche would turn the drink a lighter color of green or even white and makes the water cloudy instead of transparent. The primary tastes of a Absinthe are Anise, Wormwood, Mint, and Hyssops though there is a great variety of tastes from brand to brand depending on their formula. Also the Thujone, a mild hallucinogen found in Wormwood, was said to add a feelings of clearheadedness and creativity on top of the effects of the alcohol.
Absinthe was banned through out the world, with the exception of Spain, UK, Portugal, and few eastern European nations, in the early part of the 20th century as part of the Prohibition movement. The EU permitted sales in the 1990's and Absinthe has seen a large increase in popularity after movies such as Moulin Rouge and From Hell helped popularize it.
If you would like to learn more about this Alcohol go to: http://www.feeverte.net/
Absinthe was originally sold as a stomach worm tincture back in the days when you could just bottle some odd tasting liquor or opiate and call it a tonic. Used by the French Army during their war in Algiers in the 1840's to help fight off heat stroke and stomach ailments. The soldiers, being poor uneducated Frenchmen brought back their love for this strange green drink and began indulging in it to the point of Caligula-like excess. By the end of the century it was the most widely produced and drunken spirits in the world.
The most famous of brands was Pernod, which unlike many other producers of far cheaper absinthes, didn't use dangerous additives like Silver Nitrate to create the drinks superior appearance and Louche. The Louche is a French word describing the affects of mixing water with Absinthe (which was part of its preparation), A proper louche would turn the drink a lighter color of green or even white and makes the water cloudy instead of transparent. The primary tastes of a Absinthe are Anise, Wormwood, Mint, and Hyssops though there is a great variety of tastes from brand to brand depending on their formula. Also the Thujone, a mild hallucinogen found in Wormwood, was said to add a feelings of clearheadedness and creativity on top of the effects of the alcohol.
Absinthe was banned through out the world, with the exception of Spain, UK, Portugal, and few eastern European nations, in the early part of the 20th century as part of the Prohibition movement. The EU permitted sales in the 1990's and Absinthe has seen a large increase in popularity after movies such as Moulin Rouge and From Hell helped popularize it.
If you would like to learn more about this Alcohol go to: http://www.feeverte.net/
Dave Chappelle: Will he rock our world?
I hypothesize yes. He has come to mean a lot to so many of us, also he is one of the few people I like to hear from who has not died within the last year, it has been a very lethal year so far. Now while his May 31st date to start his 3rd season has passed, and he ran off to Africa unannounced, things remain unchanged. What most of Americans don't realize is this is what cool people do, giving notice of intent to go somewhere is for pussies. The man makes comedy, do you make people laugh and then spend money for DVDs of what they saw to laugh once again, do you? Surprisingly, only a few people had to get smashed in the balls for it to be made, and almost none of those where on screen, he's that good.
Three reasons he's better then Chris Rock:
-Dave Chappelle is not a Rapist.
-Chris Rock's voice has a real world effect on national demographic studies on suicide, while Mr.Chappelle's voice is a beautiful smoke cured D.C. scratch.
- Mr. Chappelle never starred in Head of State.
I am also required to mention somewhere here that he is Rick James Bitch!
Three reasons he's better then Chris Rock:
-Dave Chappelle is not a Rapist.
-Chris Rock's voice has a real world effect on national demographic studies on suicide, while Mr.Chappelle's voice is a beautiful smoke cured D.C. scratch.
- Mr. Chappelle never starred in Head of State.
I am also required to mention somewhere here that he is Rick James Bitch!
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