Hello good smokers!
I've been crotchety lately. It is hot here in the
Sonoran Desert - Yes, hot even for the desert.
My mountains - the Santa Catalinas - are on fire and off limits
(by the way, it wasn't me. I haul my butt in,
and I haul my butt out).
This war thing is a piece of shit. All made up, this "Daddy's War".
And I'm just too damn old to really care,
too old therefore I won't be going.
The corporations have the ear of the White House,
and they're out kill the individual spirit that makes American great.
The whole point behind all the tobacco taxes are to get people to quit
so companies can't get sued by non-smokers.
I know - I sound like a broken record.
This sort of conspiracy theory
is so tiresom on the internet.
And I find the whole thing very tiresome.
I can't but think that the "discrimination" against the smoker is driven
in large part by the belief that smoking is bad for health,
leads to absenteeism and therefore leading to a universal decline in productivity.
It sounds, well, sound.
And a compelling argument.
Until you find the essence of it all.
The man doesn't want you to have fun, relax, do anything for personal pleasure
that possibly not have you ready to give everything you've got to make money for the Man.
I read in the local paper today that Al Queda planned to set massive forest fires as terrorist acts.
Does that mean that the Aspen Fire - so near here to Tucson - which has been determined to be human in origin,
could be construed as a act of agression against the United States under our deplorable "Patriot Act"?
It's possible that authorities could conclude that a cigarette butt started the fire?
It makes an easy scapegoat in today's society.
Could now smokers who love to hike now be considered terrorists,
even the vast majority who know what there are doing and do everything to avoid such a calamity?
I think I could use some rain on my head and an air conditioner that really worked.
I'll dismiss these thoughts as I curl up to a welcome revist to the classic Orwell novel "1984".
