Author: Jocelyn

The best way to get better is to help someone crazier than you are.

This guy blows lines, freebases and shoots nearly 1/2 gram per day, but refuses the cup of coffee because “caffeine is bad for you.” Reminds me of war-mongers bellyaching about the exorbitant cost of “Obamacare”.

Where were the deficit-concerned Tea Suckers and fiscal conservatives when Bush started two wars, expanded Medi-care prescription drug entitlements and cut taxes throwing us into record-setting debt? Let’s not forget that Obama is waving a sword at a shitstorm tidal wave set in motion by the last administration.

To the miserable crusaders of the punitive War on Drugs: it doesn’t make sense to deny drug-addicts treatment on the grounds that they’re the “authors of their own fate”. Two-thirds of American adults are obese. Should we also punish these individuals by withholding expensive medical procedures on the basis of their lifestyle choices?

Drug addicts are despised because they hold a mirror to the unsavory consequences of our own intoxicating lust for “success”: selfishness, betrayal of those we love, and ultimately loneliness. There’s a razor-thin line between the dope fiend estranged from friends and family, and the workaholic.

In the Kangaroo Court of Congress, truth is more comically delicious than fiction. Satan Sandwiches are best served with a large side of Freedom Fries. For dessert, we can fight over the Biggest Piece of the Pie.

 

Facebook: Offering the illusion of a vibrant social life and stripped of the real demands of friendship since 2004.

An acquaintance with poor taste just berated my writing and my hair turned quite gold from grief.

A more interesting way to ask a friend for advice: “Can you please play the alchemist for my bad ideas and poor decision-making?”

CEOs at 299 US companies earned a total of $3.4 billion in 2010, a 23% increase over 2009, equivalent to the wages of over 100,000 median-income workers. What the fuck?