Cost saving ideas
Wow was there ever a rush on booze today at my local Bevmo. We did hear one person ask for a keg of Bud Light. My husband had a cost saving tip for this person.
Get a barrel, fill it with water, and pee in it.
Boom! Really cheap Bud Light, with the same flavor and probably the same percent alcohol if you take some shots of vodka first.
My beer snobbery knows no bounds!
My wacky ideas about marriage
The more I think about it, the more I think the government just shouldn’t involve itself in marriage at all.
Sure, that sounds unfair with the lack of tax breaks for married couples (which exist, by the way, to encourage people to have kids and rear them, etc).
It seems like it’d create a legal clusterfuck when the assets are to be divvied.
I suppose this is true. But as to the former, I don’t think the tax breaks would be as necessary if there was universal health care and people didn’t have to worry about medical bills. Marriage becomes a detriment, tax wise, once you make more than $200,000 a year anyway, and I’m sure the tax break money that comes with marriage isn’t exactly much of a supplement when it comes to the massive expense it takes to raise kids.
Separation is a legal clusterfuck anyway. As is, unmarried couples and gay couples are fucked when it comes to dividing the assets should they separate. This is a big reason they want the ability to marry–so they can get divorced! That’s the funny thing about everyone who says “marriage ends in divorce 50% of the time anyway!” Well, YEAH. That’s one of the benefits of marriage–the court divides your assets supposedly equitably. I guess it’d put an extra burden on the courts to do this with anyone who comes in claiming to have been in a relationship and living together, but I can’t see too much opportunity for fraud here. There would be witnesses and rental receipts. Perhaps some contracts could be drafted just between parties to make arrangements in the case of separation. It wouldn’t be a marriage, it’d just be a contract. This could even exist between relatives or friends living together should they decide to lump assets for whatever reason. I just think the benefits of living together shouldn’t be reserved for only sexual/amorous relationships. If two sisters or two asexual friends want to live together for platonic companionship they should be able to enter into contracts like this too. Maybe living arrangements between more than two people. Whatever. That’s the beauty of contracts–you can say whatever the fuck you want in them, within reason. I suppose there would be some unfair contracts, but there are already unfair prenups. I suppose some people would prefer not to enter into a contract because they want their assets separate. There are already people who refuse to marry. It wouldn’t change much except for marriage being a mostly private affair, aside from contract law restrictions and regulations.
If marriage is such a religious affair, it should just be something people do at a church then, and the government should have no part of it. None. Zip. Essentially, then, with the abolition of marriage as something the government has its sticky fingers in, there would be gay marriage since there are plenty of places of worship out there that will marry gay people. I personally would go on calling my husband “significant other” or “partner” rather than husband because I like those words better anyway, and we could go on shacking up like good little heathen atheists.
I used to think the government should only deal with civil unions and then let people go to church and call it marriage if they please, but that still leaves too much room for people to bully and mess with the rights of others through the law. I’m probably missing some glaring reason why this wouldn’t work, but as of right now, it makes a lot of sense to me.
By the way
Reading that last post I made I do kinda think it was uncharacteristically mean of me, but I guess I’ve gotten pretty bitter since the second Obama was elected all I hear the conservatives in my class do is sit there talking shit about Obama and about how Americans are so stupid–and even then I *still* don’t think it’s all conservatives who are out of their cotton picking minds I just think it’s the elected ones and the ones on the radio. This is even though my own conservative friends make passive aggressive comments about completely sugar-coated things I say. I still am hesitant just to write a whole lot of people off.
I did make a sarcastic comment in response to the person who responded to my last post, although thinking about it–I do believe giving money to education and infrastructure will create jobs which will help the economy a lot more than cutting everyone checks. I do think this is something that people could reasonably disagree about. Seeing how many university and school jobs have been cut and are likely to be cut in the future, and how many people in the construction industry are hurting, I think funding these things is important. I think people will stash money under their mattresses rather than spend it until the unemployment rate stops going up. I think taking control of the funding rather than throwing it at banks, using it directly in industries that can’t spend the money on jumbo jets, like universities and public infrastructure, is exactly the way to go. Despite this belief, I may disagree with the person who commented on that, but I don’t think my belief on this is the gospel. If something else will work better, then go for it.
I don’t think, though, that the GOP right now really is acting the way they are because they don’t think that bill is in the best interest of Americans. I really, really don’t. The fact that they seem to still be pushing policies predicated on the trickle-down economics principle is totally baffling to me. The person who commented might not agree with the stimulus as is but at least he or she wasn’t pushing [i]that[/i].
By the way, all of this “companies receiving stimulus money spending it on jumbo jets and spa packages” crap makes me think I’m living in the friggin’ Twilight Zone. It’s just surreal!
Anyway, time to do more school work.
Wow.
Tell me again why I shouldn’t be openly contemptuous of religion?
Might I also add that I’ve been a fan of David Attenborough for a very long time?
I wonder how many celebrities who credit god for winning oscars and emmys, or sports players who point to the sky after a win, get hate mail from atheists?
Conundrum
I’m always thinking of blog posts I want to make while in bed late at night, figuring I’ll do it in the morning, and then after a night filled with dreams (I was in a fight with a dinosaur in my dream last night and had the power to grow to a huge size, and got bitten by a very tiny snake) I just don’t remember what the hell it was I wanted to say anymore. I’d just turn a light on and write it down but doing stuff like that gets a little bit difficult when you sleep with someone else in the bed. I suppose I could do it in the dark, it’d probably just look like it was written by a drunken two year old, but at least it would remind me.
I’ve also found that I can think of less to blog about when I’m in a generally good mood. Also, pretty much everything I read in the news and then I want to comment about it in my blog is talked about in every other blog everywhere. I’m not as good at political commentary as the blogs I read so I just don’t see the point in putting yet another “haha, fuck you global gag rule, you festering piece of shit” blog up on the interwebs. I don’t want to write about anything unless I have something to say that hasn’t already been said in a blog I just read.
I will say one reason I wanted this mostly anonymous wordpress blog is because it’s nice to have somewhere to write my thoughts, regardless of whether someone else will read them (and most of the time if I get a new commenter I’m like, oh shit and prepare myself to be flamed), because as much as one might think your random, aimless thoughts is the purview of myspace, it really isn’t once you add a bunch of friends from high school who are now super religious and send messages about why they are offended about various things you say. It’s even worse when you can’t think of an excuse not to add family members and suddenly feel the need to sanitize everything. I know I can just put stuff on “preferred,” but then I imagine people would wonder why I don’t want them to see what I’m writing.
With some anonymity, I can talk about how I think religion is just propaganda designed to secure money and power for the people on top, I can talk about how I think the whole pro-life movement should really be called “the haha fuck you, women” movement, I can curse up a storm, I can trash law school and none of my law school friends can see it and think I’m just a bum.
Then the question is, I guess, why not just do it in a hard copy journal? Or on a word file, so you don’t have to clog up the tubes of the internet with your inanity?
Well, I guess I’m just vain.
OMGWTFBBQ
I cannot believe that Mall Cop has raked in
$64,923,380
count it
$64,923,380
Look I’m not as annoyed by this movie as Bride Wars or something I just thought it was one drunken producer away from a direct to DVD, that’s all.
I really need to start writing some screenplays!
I hate it when. . .
I have a song going around my head, but I only know like one line, so then I keep hearing that one line over and over and over. It’s even worse when I don’t even know the words and it kinda sounds like mush in my head.
Yeah. I got nothin’.
Is it just me, or. . .
I just saw a facebook quiz that said “what would you do if you were the last person on earth! Would u rob a bank or steal a plane?”
And I was thinking, if you were the last person on earth, how could anything be stealing? I think the concept of ownership requires that more than one person on earth exist. I’d consider money to not only be worthless, but abandoned. If no one is there to own that plane, how could I be stealing it? I wouldn’t say, though, that essentially everything on earth is mine, because I think ownership doesn’t exist without there being a relation to the status of that object in comparison to others. There has to be both an owner and a non owner, I think.
Also, whenever someone refuses to spell out simple words like “you,” I always read what they say in my head in a certain voice. It’s different than the voice that reads stuff in my head when it’s spelled correctly. This voice sounds, well, idiotic, I guess.
Ok this was totally pointless. Oh well.
Respect for the office?
I heard a lot during the Bush years that one ought to have respect for the president even if he is fleecing the nation blind and thinks of you as subhuman anyway just because he’s the president. That alone is worthy of respect. Even if he eats a charbroiled infant on the White House lawn, we must respect him (or hopefully one day, her).
Now, I dunno if people who said this in the past to supposedly disrespectful liberals are going to respect Obama now in order to not be giant hypocrites (my guess is a lot of them will make some kind of excuse, like God wouldn’t like it if we supported the Anti-Christ), and I frankly don’t care.
I am, however, interested in this:
Okay, there are several things I find hilarious about this video.
For one, I haven’t heard that “na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey! Goodbye!” song since middle school. It reminds me of stuff like awkward school dances and the movie Ferngully. At this point I’d probably laugh at hearing it in general.
Hearing it from a crowd feeling jubilation while Bush is leaving the White House makes me laugh even harder. I can’t even *think* about this event without laughing my butt off. I’m going to be sitting in a law school class at some point, have this come into my head, and get called on because the professor will realize I’m not paying attention and I’m thinking about something actually amusing.
I also laugh at the stunned commentators. “Oh that’s just bad form.” Their embarrassment and mostly silence over people being soooo disrespectful.
I freakin’ love that this video exists in about 100,000 places on youtube so people can watch it for all eternity. How cool will it be to growing up now, studying history in school, and you can easily watch clips of it in action, but all of the interesting stuff is also preserved because of intrepid youtubers cutting out the boring stuff and preserving the interesting stuff in short, ADD-efficient clips? Not to mention all the juicy things we get from camera phones and cheap digital cameras with a video function.
As for the issue of respect, I guess I sort of feel like if Bush wanted to be respected, he should have returned the favor. He’s been engaging in a lot of history revision lately, and he pretty much thinks he was the best president ever and our society 100 years down the road will recognize that. Or maybe he at least hopes not to end up in Pierce, Johnson, Buchanan territory. To be honest we really can’t predict now what people will think 100 years from now–I mean there have been publicly unpopular presidents who have gone on to not be reviled in the history books. I’m not sure I really agree with most historians in their presidential rankings (I know a lot of people who would consider Andrew Jackson amongst the worst and he’s usually considered one of the best–and he’s on the $20 bill, I guess as a constant reminder to American Indians that they are totally fucked).
I think our account of history is a little bit like this Perry Bible Fellowship comic. Although it’s useful, we should recognize it for what it is.
Anyway, I feel like I don’t have to respect anyone just for who they are or their position. This is probably why I’d be totally unemployable as a lawyer or in any business field, but it’s hard to respect someone you feel is an idiot/jackass/contemptuous hamsterfucker. If Obama does something to lose my respect he’ll lose it. For now I think he’s 31 flavors of awesome sauce–just doing what he said he was going to do and getting Gitmo shut down was pretty good as is (my standards are low at this point), but making it so Bush and Cheney can’t hide their records? Setting all kinds of ethical standards? Did I step into the Twilight Zone?
I also enjoy the booing and singing because, as I’ve mentioned before, I have this weird penchant for chaos. Not so much the “lots of people died” kind, but for weird happenings and surprising things. I think this falls under that. Never except in a webcomic would I imagine the people attending a presidential inauguration would sing Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye as the former president exits stage left. Maybe I don’t have the proper respect, but whatever. I was entertained.
