new years resolution: enjoy the hell out of my favorite vices.
the gasoline choir: December 2003 Archives
in my green metal suit i'm preparing to shoot up the city
and the ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty
it's a pity there's nobody here to witness the end
save for my dear old friend and confidante madmoiselle kitty
~you know, what's his name
... sometimes it's just been too long since you've heard a song.
'You'd better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It's unpleasently like being drunk.'
'What's so unpleasent about being drunk?'
'You ask a glass of water.'
"I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much, of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end."
~douglas noel adams
... my quotation collection amuses me.
"the FDA has concluded that continued sale and use of products containing ephedra pose an unreasonable health risk. There have been about 1,000 reports of serious health complications from the use of ephedra and at least 100 deaths."
*ahem*
excuse me, i'm with the institute for the painfully bloody obvious and i have a few questions. first of all how many fingers am i holding up? one, yes, that's correct. now, exactly how much have the tobacco & alcohol lobbyists paid you** crooked bastards to ignore the hundreds of thousands of deaths & illnesses their products cause? what's that worth to ya? a hummer? a summer house? what?
let's review.
�For example, if current cigarette taxes and tobacco control policies remain unchanged during the next 40 years, we estimate that 498,000 smokers will die from smoking-related diseases in 2038. A tax of $1.00, indexed to inflation during those 40 years, will drop the annual death rate to 412,000 in 2038�
sounds perfectly reasonable to me. raising taxes saves lives! sure some people will die but only after they've paid their extra tax.
in 1996 there were 110,640 alcohol related deaths in the US. 19,709 w/explicit mention of alcohol, 45,157 other a/r diseases, 45,774 other a/r adverse effects
oh yeah i can see how unreasonably risky ephedrine is by comparison.
i smoke. i drink. my right to fuck up my health with nicotine & alcohol is safe, protected by the vast wealth of the companies that sell these deadly but admittedly happyfun mind-altering substances.
i'm sitting here just shaking from the enormity of the stupidity of this, & it isn't just the three mini-thins i just took.
**the all-inclusive "you" includes the ATF & whoever decided alcohol & tobacco are fun like guns not bad like drugs or whatthefuckever.
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