Society

Today is Labor Day, a day to honor the workers who drive our economy. It's funny how everyone wants to work -- people say creating jobs should be the new president's top priority -- and yet nearly everyone dreams of the day they can retire, too.

Yeah, so maybe the cliche actually is true: money doesn't buy you happiness. I always figured that was just a lie that rich people spread to keep poor people complacent so they don't revolt against them. But anyone living in the United States is already extremely rich by comparison to people in other parts of the world, and anyone alive today in any part of the world is unimaginably rich compared to people 200 years ago in terms of the material luxuries they have, most of which had not even been invented 200 years ago.

Cool, not only do we lead the world in both absolute number as well as percentage of population behind bars, but we also lead in consumption of cocaine and marijuana, too! Oh, and guess what, for the few who find American life enjoyable enough to live it sober, there's another way to get through yet another dreary day here: eating!

To the Wall Street Journal: come on, man, what's up with the stupid fucking drawings already? You have full color advertisements with photos, but you still can't use pictures for your portraits?

Man this Coke/Pepsi duopoly stinks. Can't somebody bust them under anti-trust regulations? I hate that everywhere, I mean EVERYWHERE, it's the exact same damn fountain soda choices! What is this, Communist Russia? I thought we're supposed to get some choices in this free-market economy...

If I can give advice to whoever creates the next big world religion, I'd strongly urge him/her to include some language to the effect that God, being the powerful fellow that He is, doesn't need the meager help of any human agents to carry out His will. It's already obvious, but still it probably needs to be explicitly stated as part of the religion for the more literal-minded among us.

I wonder what impact the advent of C-sections has had on our intelligence? It seems like a good thing since now babies whose heads couldn't fit through the birth canal can now survive, and go on to have more big-headed kids themselves. (Speaking of big heads, I read an interview with Bob Barker, host of Price Is Right, in which he stated that the only reason Merv Griffin picked him to host the show was because Merv had a theory that people with big heads made good gameshow hosts, and he therefore only picked large-headed people to host his shows.

Forget Rachel Ray and the 30 minute meal, get yourself a pressure cooker instead. Pressure cookers are the real deal... they're all gain and no pain! You can boil a pot of potatoes in 10 minutes flat, or do any of your other stove-top cooking in about 1/3 of the time (and less than 1/3 of the energy) it would normally take. And there's no compromise on flavor -- on the contrary, foods come out better... more tender, more tasty, because none of the water is lost during cooking.

I don't drink coffee, but Bach is my caffeine. Good god, this man was not a man, he must have been an extra-terrestrial, because what he wrote is not humanly possible. I don't know how he could stand carrying such greatness in his head. I think if we're choosing who was or wasn't God or His messenger, J. S. Bach is the leading candidate... certainly more plausible to me than Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna, etc.