the persecuted (stupid!?) crack smoker

when i say that this blog is the last refuge of the persecuted crack smoker, i don't even think this place is a refuge for a crack smoker this dumb.

george allen ward has officially put himself in the running for stupidest crack smoker ever. click the link, read it, and weep: he's suing arm and hammer, pro se, for failure to warn. what did they fail to warn him about? they failed to warn him about the fact that it's illegal to use baking soda for the purpose of making crack.

let that sink in. this guy is in jail for making crack, and he is suing arm and hammer for not warning him that making crack is not legal.

the entire complaint is demented genius. he keeps swearing that his complaint isn't frivolous, but somehow i just can't bring myself to believe him. he thinks he's a persecuted crack smoker...but really, he's just oblivious. the sun rises in the east. the sun sets in the west. making crack is illegal. you really don't need arm and hammer to tell you that.

do re mi

this is the greatest postsecret ever.



no, this is nothing i've ever done, and nothing i'll probably ever do, but the concept intrigues and amuses me.

sexual nomenclature

one of my least favourite phrases in the english language is "premarital sex." i hate it because it's overused. people use it to describe, and often condemn, any sex outside the institution of marriage.

the prefix "pre" means before...as in, sex before marriage. implying that it occurs before marriage means that there is a built-in assumption--that the context in which the sex is occurring is one that will eventually lead to marriage.

this may be an appropriate description of some sex outside marriage. if you're sleeping with your fiancee, or you're sleeping with a significant other with whom you've been contemplating marriage, then yes...you are having premarital sex.

but...anything else should more rightly be described as "nonmarital sex." or, hey...let's go back to the old school, call it "fornication." or, we can be simple...call it "sex"--no bones about it, because that's what it is. call it anything that doesn't imply marriage as an end. the fact that people talk about any sort of sex outside of marriage in terms that build in assumptions that the people engaging in it may marry each other one day...or even that the people will marry at all one day...annoys me a lot.

marriage is a valid enough choice for those who want it...but, i'm not in that contingent of those who want it, and i'm definitely not the only one. and, even though it's probably a small concern in the larger scheme of things, it would be nice if society didn't default to describing my sex life in condescending terms of something that it will never be.