We here at Cathartic Lament have been pounding on the stripper subject kind of hard lately. Truthfully, most of it bores me to death because it's so 1997 to me. Anyway, we are focused on writing about stupid, ignorant, and non-sensical things that happen on a daily basis. For example, I can't get tired of talking about gas prices until they are right. I watch Sportscenter and I see the highlights from the NASCAR races, the scores from the NBA and MLB games, and I can't help but think that if we are in a true gas crunch, it's time to stop all of that.
Now, I never watch racing, but I am partial to baseball, football, and basketball. But if you examine basketball and baseball alone, there are thirty teams in each league. In the NBA there are 82 games and in MLB there are 162 games, and that is just the regular season. Thinking about how much fuel is expended flying teams from one city to another, it would seem to me that the oil that is used could be redistributed domestically and bring an influx to our sagging economy.
Don't misunderstand me either, I love sports. I gamble almost daily, and my team is first in the league for the first time in forever. I realize this would be a sacrifice and that revenue would be lost fro team owners and establishments that cater to sports enthusiasts. But all the oil it takes to make the tires for the race cars, race the cars, fly the teams daily........why should we be wasting the oil and charging high prices per gallon when we could just put a five year moratorium on them? As we do not have a plausible current plan for energy in the future, this seems a legitimate option. I think it is more important for people to be able to get to work and go on vacation, with whatever mode of transportation they're using, than to continue wasting gas on mass recreation.
Yeah, about what? Profits? Wasting gas? Being role models for the young? I saw half the Pacers bench empty and jump in the stands to attack fans (the guy Artest hit was not the one who threw the dangerous plastic cup at him.) What a bunch of bullshit, that logo cracks me up. If I ran a youth center I don't think I would allow and NBA players on the premises. Fucking clowns. (And for all you gamblers out there my money is on CLE and PHX, fuck Detroit.)
Another thing that has been eating at me (besides my torrid liver) is the increased amount of traffic stops that I have been seeing in my area. I can't say for the rest of the country, but they have been out in force around here. Pulling people over for speeding and tossing the veichles, taking thirty minutes to write tickets that could take five. Hey asshole pig, if I wasn't in a hurry I wouldn't have been speeding. You would think that a law that gets broken so many times on a daily basis would be cause for the representatives everywhere to say ‘hey, maybe this law needs to be reformed seeing as no one abides by it.' When prohibition was in force the government turned that over because everyone kept drinking. However, speeding and marijuana keep eluding that same train of logic.
With some of the traffic stops you can plainly tell that the police are just itching for the motorist to do anything wrong, give them any provocation to search the veichle. They are no longer required to have provocation, but they still like to make it your choice (gee, thanks!) This is what the patriot act has done for us, thank you GWB.
I rarely take the freeway anymore, unless I have to. The sheriffs and state patrol are just out of hand. So I usually drive the streets, and the other day I was in the ‘hood. I saw two cops pull a guy over. Without even getting his license they pulled him out of the car, searched him, and made him open his trunk. In the end they let him leave, which was cool, but what were they looking for? He was black so I assume drugs; this is the way it has been for black people for years. But now it seems to be transferring on everyone. Why do we put up with it?
And more importantly, why do we not have a lane on each freeway, and in some cases on streets, where we are allowed to use our own judgement on how fast to go? How many more tickets have to be given out before that law is modified? It is not a saftey concern as they would have us believe, it is a source of revenue. Again, they claimed that same line with booze and then later changed it, how is this different?
As if generating revenue through giving out speeding tickets wasn't enough, try living in the city and parking. I can almost see the city planners and councilmen together in a room saying, "Well, we will create a situation in which parking is available for only half the people that live here, then give out tickets to the rest when they aren't first in a spot!" Remember that game from way back that we all played with the music and the chairs? There were always more people than chairs and when the music stopped if you didn't have a seat you were screwed? That's how this, and many other cities treat parking. Like musical chairs with a tax. Fuck you city of _____. Would you prefer if I didn't live here or if I didn't have a car to get to work? Right, that is not your concern.
I have been sick all week because I do not have a healthy diet (or maybe it's the drugs???) So I am going to go eat a piece of fruit and go to work. I will drive carefully, however I will speed the entire way there, unless I am behind one of those retards that actually does the speed limit, then I will just have a anxiety attack.
On a side note, for those of you who have not seen it, "Drawn Together" is out on DVD. Anything that stars Adam Corrola in it is bound to be good. It also has guest spots from Jimmy Kimmel and the lovely and talented Sarah Silverman. Check that out.
Current gas price 3.29 downtown/eastside MKE. Pretty soon I will have to make up a song about it. It will be based on Johnny Cash's ‘Five Feet High and Rising'
How high's gas now, momma?
Three-oh-nine and risin'..........
