This time, the words are “Behind Grocery Cell” which gave this site. reviewjournal.com is the website for the Las Vegas Journal-Review. The article linked to is about one woman’s effort to get a grocery store to pull an ad from television because it depicts someone using a cell phone while behind the wheel.

On one facet, this woman is right in pointing out that driving while using a cell phone does make things more dangerous. This has been established. On the other hand, I don’t believe her assumption that the advertisement encourages the acceptance of “chatting and driving”. People are going to use their cells unless the law says otherwise. And even then, we’ve seen how that’s not 100% effective with seat belts or motorcycle helmets. Still, this woman is trying to do something she believes will make her community a better place, and you gotta respect that.

OK, I’m off to work! Check out the article and chime in with your two cents: Should this lady be praised or locked up? Until next time, enjoy this round of .hack//google!
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Fluxxdog

The worst crime you can commit against another human being is to make them think.

I got thinking about three things this morning while waiting for a cab to pick me up and take me home. I’ll start off with the good.

In two days time (as of writing this), Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving. We’re supposed to be happy for what we’re thankful for and all that. And, yes, I’m one of those who beleives we shouldn’t limit such cheer to once a year. Let’s not forget our international readers as well. I hope you all enjoy what makes you happy in life. Too often I see and hear people focusing on what’s wrong with their lives. I think more people should take time out of their DAY to say, “You know, I really enjoy (insert something good here) about life!” That’s the good.

The bad? MDX. I saw this while I was grocery shopping for my Twice Baked potatoes that I’m making for Thanksgiving. I figured, what the heck, I’d get one. It a Mountain Dew Energy SODA. Not drink, soda! As if regular Mountain Dew didn’t get you wired enough, now they’re adding the stuff they put in Red Bull and Monster. (BTW, if you want to get Angalee a good Christmas gift, 2 or 3 cases of Monster energy drink should do the trick ) The taste? Not that great, I think. Kinda like Mountain Dew, but spiked with orange. no, there’s no orange juice in the drink. I checked. This is ironic because regular Mountain Dew has a bit of concetrated orange juice in it. Don’t beleive me, check the label! What’s worse is they were selling it in 14 oz. bottles for $2! The 20 oz. bottles of regular Dew was right outside for $1. But wiat, there’s more! If you drink this stuff… well, remember that scene from the X-Men movie where Toad spits that gross stuff out? Either I’ve mutated or there’s just way too much coloring in it. Eww.

Now for the ugly. While I was drinking that disappointment, I caught a glimpse of an article in USA Today. It read “AIDS tops 40 million”. For an online news article, check out voanews.com (click the link). 40 million is a lot of people to begin with, but I remembered hearing the world population was over the 6 billion mark. The CIA estimates the world population to be almost 6.5 billion as of July, 2005. It roughly breaks down to 1 person out of every 160 people on Earth are now infected with AIDS. I don’t need to say how awful this is. There is good news, they say. In some of the worse areas, the rate is decreasing. aids.org is a website that helps spread awareness. If you can, help them help others.

Thanksgiving for everyone, a sacred soda turned nasty energy soda, and awareness of a still present epidemic. OK, I’m done running at the mouth. … Or would that be running at the fingers? Anyway, catch you all later!
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Fluxxdog

The worst crime you can commit against another human being is to make them think.

I just stumbled on this site and had a few thoughts.


DaveLovesElizabeth.com

I hate to be a pessimist but, here it goes….

I’ll bet this Dave guy is either gay or more into the proposal than the girl.
He’ll be using this to get laid for years to come.
Better than a puppy!

Alright, this is a good one for Angalee: Shortpacked! I saw this and the first thing that popped into mind was Angalee, except the last quote would have been “And I didn’t get their address so I could personally drool over their collection?!?” And yes, you all know she’s a Strawberry Shortcake fan. Silly really. Everyone knows Rainbow Brite was better. [realizes what he just said and runs before he gets viciously brutalized!]

Seriously, I’m sure eveyrone who reads this has something from that time that they absolutely love.

I just left my doctors and refilled my prescription. What this means is I now have an attention span and can write.
O.k I have an attention span but still can’t write.
I need a new drug, Prescription drug of course because if it doesn’t come from a doctor you’ve paid $150 to for 15mins of their time then it’s a crime and your scum.
Fortunately for me I have insurance to cover my dealers…I mean doctors fee.
this is not a rant against the psychiatric community it’s more of a rant about society as a whole. My father said it best with an editorial called Elitist. I am an elitist. I try not to be but struggle with my disgust at the meth addict with no teeth or the pot head from high school that is now a coke addict and still working at the local bar. I do feel superior to these people while I take Adderall like it’s candy and stay up all night playing Zuma. I have alot of growth ahead of me.

Elitist

Elitist thinking plays a major roll in the perpetuation of the failed drug war. The temporary escape of drugs from a life filled with difficulty, poverty, hate and self-loathing is truly intoxicating. For the desperately poor the money from drug sales is an equally intoxicating temptation.

For lives devoid of these miseries the problem is distant and hard to understand. The old expression “driven to drink” is just a colloquialism to most elitists. They are not tempted to risk all that they have with illegal drugs. To them it is nothing more than weakness. They see a difference between taking their prescribed Valium to cope with the stress in their lives and a homeless man smoking a joint under a bridge for the same reason.

Drug abuse is not choosing between lawfulness and criminality, it is choosing a fleeting alternative to despair over the relative slight possibility of punishment in a free society. No matter how draconian these punishments the abuse of drugs continues, as does human misery. Difficult lives become impossible, not because of drugs but because of the drug war.

The elitists see only laws, crime, and punishment. They do not see their position in life as superior they see themselves as superior. They then use their superior position with the government to visit even more misery on the miserable. If these elitists are truly superior then why can they not see how wrong they are?

Written by
Rick Wolfe
The last tyranny of man