11:55 am
Edward turned out not to be one of the world’s greatest guitarists, he’s just your plain old garden variety asshole. I couldn’t even dress it up, that’s just what, and who he is. But before we get into all that he….isn’t, I wanted to hit a Q&A. As you can imagine, I get asked everything and this one goes way back, but I really didn’t have much input until recently. The question is asking my opinion on illegal drugs in so many words. That’s a pretty broad topic which has a lot of political connotations and you know my disdain for politics, but I do have some input on the subject. First, I wholly support the government’s efforts with regard to hard narcotics: cocaine, heroin, meth and the like. Those drugs destroy lives, period.
Second, what idiot thought it was a good idea to make marijuana illegal and alcohol legal. I know, and have intervened on behalf of, people who have lost a loved one from an alcohol related driving death. Not once have I even heard of a marijuana related driving death. Yet we spend billions of dollars in law enforcement to prohibit it and probably half of the inmates in prison are there for marijuana related offenses. Over half the country is using marijuana and instead of collecting tax on a chemical that is, in my educated opinion, a lot more benign that alcohol, they are forcing all that money over the border to support drug cartels around the world, all the while using our tax dollars to put more Americans in jail. See where my disdain for politics comes from?
I tried the weed a few times, just to see if it would appease the Rage some. All it did was make him more creative and he came up with some new forms of punishment, all the while giggling like a schoolgirl. That and he ate all the ice cream in the house. Is it the big bad devil that the government has you believing? History has shown the complete inefficiency of prohibition but they are still practicing it today. Ask yourself who makes money by keeping marijuana illegal????? Oh, by the way, how many people are hooked on prescription medications in our country today now that we’re on the subject? Do you think the weed is doing more damage than that?
Speaking of damage, let’s focus on Edward now that I got the Rage fired up talking about weed. We conducted extensive Ragesearch into this anal fissure and found nothing that would gain him a reservation at the “slightly less than 5 star facility” known as, The Farm. Does that mean we forgive and forget? You know the Rage enough by now to know that he hasn’t reached that level of self actualization yet. Instead, we are going to go back to our roots, to the beginning, and show Edward the error in his ways. We are going to give him suggestions on how to improve, and then follow up to make sure that he has changed his ways. Consequences.
I opened up a new email to the wanna be conductor:
“Dear Edward,
I had the displeasure of sitting behind you at a red light the other day. There was not a “No Turn On Red” sign, but you chose to sit through the entire light cycle anyway and then had the audacity to stick your middle finger in the air at those who were trying to let you know that it was safe to proceed. That is just rude, and equally reckless. You have no idea who you are offending, obviously, because I took note of this behavior and I found you. Now, I know everything there is to know about you. You are going to get a chance that several people never got. Change your ways or suffer the consequences. Follow the rules, be courteous and respectful. That’s it! That’s all that you need to do to continue on with what has to be a very disappointing life, but you will continue on regardless. Unless you don’t heed my advice…
Simon”
We just got another consulting gig so we will be traveling. Please heed the really good advice above, you never know who it is that you are offending.