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Our country's war on drugs has finally destroyed all reality as we know it, by proving that a non-zero number is equal to zero. Specifically, you can be sent to prison for selling drugs while having possessed, sold, transferred or consumed 0 (zero) amounts of any illegal drug.

Take, for example, Steve Tucker, who served 10 years for selling light ( Read more... )

A fetus can survive to be a human being ( Read more... )

Barry Bonds tied Hank Aaron's record today, hitting his 755th career home run. This is a travesty of moumental proportions. Right now, I have no doubt in my mind that Bonds has used steroids to enhance his performance. There is, of course, the tiniest shadow of doubt, but you don't have to prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt, you have to prove ( Read more... )

Two melatonin
A cigarette
A glass of wine
And the prayerful delusion that there is still time
I'll write off the day as an unforeseen loss
And tomorrow, everything will turn out fine
A tumor, a test, a signal, a sign
A failure of purpose, a calling divine
To pine for loss, to waste a mind
A glass of wine
A moment of time

I've solved it. Not just provided an answer to why we can't elect a decent human being to public office, but I've solved the root of the problem. I've discovered that not everyone who is from the USA is actually from the USA. There are two sociopolitical nations at war in this single country. The fact is, the Civil War was unnecessary and ( Read more... )

Deference I understand, but what becomes of a dream denied ( Read more... )

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Sometimes, stumble can surprise you. It did me, tonight, perfectly. I was just putzing around after work, and it gave me the movie above. I've never been much of a fan of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's work, but this song is perfect. It's beautiful, melancholy, longing, and peaceful. It's a rehashing of two old works, but they're put together ( Read more... )

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"Oh...oh, okay. Now I see. No, it's not like that. You see, the company recycles old wine bottles, and my job is to collect the corks. As the corks come through the assembly line, I grab them and put them into sacks. When one sack is full of corks, I get another sack. And when I've sacked all of the corks, I can go home. You're right, though ( Read more... )