I was hanging out with my buddy Malcolm this weekend and we started riffing on a joke that really got us laughing. We were off to a concert at the Warwick Valley Winery, and being just the two bros we decided that it was a brocation. It was a great broment. Rated very high on the bromometer. So I went to spreadshirt.com and created a few new products.
With lower expectations everything seems better.
No? Maybe you havent lowered them enough.
Its a way of saying count your blessings. I always reflect on how lucky I am to never have fought in a war. My expectation was to get drafted. I can remember going down to the Bedford public library and register for the draft. The fact that I wasn’t drafted and was never shot at is wonderful. Low expectations.
Walmart’s new logo somehow made it past the corporate reviewers there. Didn’t anyone notice the starburst kinda looks like, how can I put this delicately, a cat from behind?
Some people argue that the decriminialization of drugs would result in more drug use. A new study by the World Health Organization suggests just the opposite. In the US, with one of the harshest drug policies, 42.4% of those surveyed said they used Marijuana. Whereas in the Netherlands, with their famously liberal drug policies, only 19.8 percent have used Marijuana.
Alternet has a great article about the report.
Published data from the survey on drug use
I’m going to spend some time reading the actual source document to see what else I can learn.
Everyone is talking about gas prices these days. The price for a gallon of regular that I saw today when we were out buying stuff for lunch was $4.07. But you know what really pisses me off? How come, even at $4.07 a gallon they have to add that 9/10ths? I mean, come on, be a man about it and just charge the extra penny if you need it so damn bad.
Nothing else is priced like that, because no other industry is so full of shit.
I read the article in the Atlantic about the new Chevy Volt and am hopeful that they might actually produce some version of an electric car before Obama is out of office. That is what we really need to free ourselves from oil.