Worst. Glue. Ever.

Just doing the bi-weekly billing over here on yet another jobless Friday which rarely feel like any sort of end to any real week any longer, and, I can honestly say, without any doubt whatsoever, the envelope glue on the unemployment slip is easily the foulest in all the land. Still bitter about getting the axe? Don't worry, you haven't tasted shit until you've sent back your first Gimme Monay return form. Oh sure, times are tough, and not every little government body can afford Glue Brand Glue any longer like those rich bastards at Southern California Edison with their candylipped folded bits of PayMeNowOrLightCandlesLater, some have to resort to this current concoction of gloe Brand (can't afford the ink to print a full-sized G really) that I currently lay my tongue upon every other week for my Jobless Stipend, because really, it may just be the time of it wearing quite decidedly on, but it's got to be getting worse in flavour as the months go by. Perhaps this is where the money for the $25 / week Unemployment Stimulus comes from, oh yes, we actually got a raise a week or three ago. So now I can lift my skinny fist yelling take THAT, Bank of America! You can HAVE your $208,000,000,000.00 because I'm going to be $800.00 RICHER (before taxes) by the time my unemployment extension runs out! HAHAHA!!! Suckers. Oh wait.

So I read earlier today that legalizing marijuana is once again rising up into the regular lexicon, this time to solve California's state budget problem. Now, I quit even cigarettes years ago, and honestly my sensitive little girl lungs get pretty bent out of shape whenever I so much as sit too close to a large candle these days, but I've always been a proponent of the movement to legalize marijuana. Why? Read the facts. No, not the corn industry funded website on the "safety" of high fuctose corn shit, I mean actual literature based on logic and reason. The state budget brouhaha in question as related to this still illegal drug may be found over on Time.com but the key quote from the heart of it all is as follows:

In response, retired Orange County Superior Court Judge James Gray, a longtime proponent of legalization, estimates that legalizing pot and thus ceasing to arrest, prosecute and imprison non-violent offenders could save the state an additional $1 billion a year. "We couldn't make this drug any more available if we tried," he says. "Not only do we have those problems, along with glamorizing it by making it illegal, but we also have the crime and corruption that go along with it." He adds, "Unfortunately, every society in the history of mankind has had some form of mind-altering, sometimes addictive substances to use, to misuse, abuse or get addicted to. Get used to it. They're here to stay. So, let's try to reduce those harms and right now we couldn't do it worse if we tried."

I can only add two simple truths to that concise spread of Fact: if public safety were the concern alcohol would be illegal, and if public health were the concern tobacco would be illegal. Obviously that rationale does not dictate the drive behind the laws that regulate what drugs we can and cannot play with, so let us allow a practical decision to take hold for this third grouping of temporary mental escape, easing an unavoidable monetary problem all the while. It really wouldn't be that hard, and now that blacks and gays enjoy their complete and utter freedom in today's Modern America, so too shall the legion of marijuana users follow suit. Oh wait.

Speaking of weed, it's time for some Electric Wizard. I'll make it at least sound like Friday.