The heart of Texas?

Dear Texas,

Boy, you really dodged a bullet! Congratulations on approving proposition two, thereby writing into the constitution of your great state that marriage can exist solely between one man and one woman. It was a tight election with the margin of victory being a mere 48%, but you pulled through and showed us all how your state should continue to be a shining example of what this nation can achieve.

Beware - there will be some who say that drafting, putting to a vote and passing a law which already existed was a waste of time and capital, but what do they know? After all, it's not as though you have better things on which to spend the money. You may be second in the nation when it comes to teen pregnancies, but who's to say that's a bad thing - after all, babies are always good, right? Besides, you're doing your best to fight that problem by telling teenagers that they shouldn't have sex - I can't possibly see where that might fail.

What do people expect you to do - spend more money on education to fix the fact that you have the tenth highest high-school drop-out rate in the nation? I think our president proved a few years back that fixing that problem doesn't require spending money, just creatively adjusting the statistics a bit. What you need is a return to old-fashioned book-cooking.

And so what if you also have the tenth highest unemployment in the nation? When was the last time that spending money stimulated an economy and created jobs, huh? Besides, that number's gone up lately thanks to a little storm that hit Louisiana and Mississippi and did away with a handful of jobs there. Clearly all we need are a few more natural disasters and you'll be flirting with the high teens!

And about your crime rating - I wouldn't sweat the fact that only four states have higher rates of crime than you. After all, what could money buy that would help with that? Policemen already make millions (if you add all their salaries up) and it's not like their jobs are difficult or dangerous - I'm sure they wouldn't have accepted a raise anyway.

The point is that you as a state have realized that it's not crime, unemployment, terrorism, or a failing education system that threaten to tear our society apart - it's the idea of two men or two women getting married. Besides - how can you not agree with a law supported by one of this nations oldest organizations? I think we can all agree that while the rest of the world looks at you with disdain and rolls their eyes at your tactics, when homosexual couples revolt and conquer their puny countries - you'll have the last laugh.

So thank you Texas - thank you for continuing to prove the fundamental flaw with democracy: the average person has no idea what is best for the country as a whole. While every state does it - you do it with flare.

Never less yours than now,

Nicholas

Freaking drug dealers

So I have a cold - not a regular "my nose is running a bit and I sneeze every once in a while" cold mind you but rather a "someone please beat me over the head with a blunt object" cold. So I went to Kroger to buy some Sudafed - but guess what...now, Sudafed is kept behind a locked counter because apparently, if you know what you are doing, you can use Sudafed to create Crystal Meth. It was late and the pharmacy was already closed, so instead I had to buy "new formula" Sudafed which has been changed so that no matter how hard you try, you can't make Crystal Meth out of it.

Guess what - the new shit doesn't work!

So, I'm sitting here, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching and wishing ghonorrea on all the freaking drug dealers who had to go and figure out how to use cold medicine to make drugs. However, I have also come to an interesting conclusion. If after removing the part of Sudafed which can be used to make Crystal Meth, the medicine no longer works, I have no choice but to conclude that Crystal Meth cures the common cold.

I wonder if I can buy it on eBay?

If...

My thought of the day:

If you believe the same things today that you did when you were taught to believe them as a child, one of two things has occurred. Either you have explored those beliefs, questioned them and tested them only to find your confidence in them strengthened, or you have blindly followed them, refusing to believe that maybe, just maybe your parents were wrong.

One an almost completely unrelated note, I found this article very interesting.