drink beer

Janell Ross's piece in the Tennessean this morning on police calls and racial profiling is sketchy, provides no statistics or fact-based hypotheses for tensions in transitional neighborhoods, and generally rests on the interviews of a handful people in two very different neighborhoods: Germantown and Salemtown

As I sit here drinking a cold cheap can of beer, listening to my dance music, in my new home I wonder what it would be like if I didnt buy this home? Well, I would probably be laying in bed at mothers and being bored since she doesnt let anyone drink beer in her home. [...]

An Internet friend sent me this months ago, and I have been meaning to post it:

I recently picked a new primary care doctor. After two visits and exhaustive lab tests, he said I was doing "fairly well" for my age.

A little concerned about that comment, I couldn't resist asking him, "Do you think I'll live to be 80?"

The worst part about most bad things, from death to taxes, is the dread. Sitting around worrying about something makes the bad event appear ten times worse.

Drink Beer. Save the World.

(via Freedom Democrats)

I'm thinking of changing the name of this blog to "Lack of Sex and the City". Or, more accurately, "Lack of sex...and the city."

I kid, Mom, I kid.

So, I finally heard from that guy I went out with last weekend tonight. He was all worried because his WoW guild was breaking up and he had applied for a new one. Now he can't go on raids three times weekly like he normally does.

Seriously.

There are some people who are born with handicaps and disadvantages and must struggle to overcome their disadvantages, but for most people they have to do really stupid things to stay poor. It is hard to stay poor in America. Having worked with poor people most of my life, I have observed some of the things that people do to achieve poverty. Here is a list. If you want to be poor, these are some of the things you can do.