There just isn't enough coffee to keep me awake today. I wish I could go home and sleep. Four hours of sleep, two days in a row, just isn't enough for me to function properly today. Fuck it, though. At least I have something to post about now.

Here's a song for everyone. It may be the best song ever written. I'm sure you all can relate.

Child Molesters - I'm Gonna Punch You in the Face

Damn. I guess this happened last week, but I was too busy to notice.

Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose book “A People’s History of the United States” became a million-selling leftist alternative to mainstream texts, died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Auburndale, Mass

[From Howard Zinn, dissident historian, dead at 87 | Raw Story]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A group of 10 American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital Sunday after trying to take 33 children out of Haiti.

The church group, most of them from Idaho, allegedly lacked the proper documents when they were arrested Friday night in a bus along with children from 2 months to 12 years old who had survived the catastrophic earthquake.

[From U.S. Baptists arrested in Haitian orphan incident (OneNewsNow.com) ]

Pray for them! They are still brothers & sisters in the Lord... and they are Americans!

South Carolina Lt.-Gov. Andre Bauer, a candidate for governor, made the comment during a town hall meeting on Friday. During a discussion of subsidized school lunches, Bauer argued that children should be denied reduced prices for school lunches if their parents fail a drug test or don't show up for parent-teacher meetings.

"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed," Bauer said, as quoted at the South Carolina State. "You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better."

[From SC Lt. Gov. regrets comparing poor to animals, then does it again]

What a prick.

This is a post because there hasn't been one in almost two weeks.

It's been one week since I've had a smoke.

I want a fucking cigarette.

Smoking fucking rules. That's all there is to it. Unfortunately it can kill you and, more importantly, smokes are expensive these days. So, I've decided to quit. Or at least I've decided I need to quit at some point. That point is now.

I didn't smoke most of yesterday, but caved and had a few last night. I didn't buy a new pack. I had an unfinished one I bought earlier. Knowing they're in the house makes them difficult to resist and throwing them away is a waste of money. I only have two left. I might as well smoke them.

I had to run some errands yesterday, which included going to the bank. Half of a day without smoking, driving and dealing with the line of people at the bank is not conducive to smoking cessation. It is, however, conducive to rage. And lots of it. I was chewing gum--regular, not the nicotine variety--as a substitute for cigs. I was chewing so hard at one point, I thought my jaw was going to snap.

Gum substitution does not work well with coffee. The tastes clash horribly. Cigarettes, on the other hand, compliment black coffee extremely well. And, I drink a lot of coffee.

I'm totally fucked.

Holy shit, it's a new fucking year. Do I have to make resolutions? Is that what people do for a new year? They take stock of their stupid lives and try to do things differently based on some vaguely sensed need for self-improvement?

I've been contemplating quitting smoking, until I run out of cigarettes. And then I buy a new pack. I'm not really concerned with the health issues. But goddamnit smoking is a fucking expensive hobby.

I thought about starting running again too. I ran for a little while but quit over a year ago. Unsurprisingly quitting running and starting smoking happened together. Can these really work together? Exercise is boring.

I briefly considered eating healthier meals. Then I realized I would have to cook more often than I do and that seemed sucky. Way sucky. Plus, healthy includes a wide range of foods I consider to be disgusting.

Maybe I should buy fewer comics, or at least spend less on them.

I seriously need to establish a schedule of some kind. The problem is, I'm a late night sort of person. I hate the morning. I hate waking up and having to go somewhere. I hate following a pace and routine set by other people. So, what really needs to happen is the rest of the world just needs to adjust their schedule to mine.

I need to write more, both here on this shitty shitty blog and in real life. Thing about the real life writing is, people are waiting to read that shit. I guess I should get off of my lazy, procrastinating ass. This blog? Not so much. Honestly, you couldn't pay me to read this shit.

Let's see. What else is there? Oh. If I cut down on my coffee drinking, I'd get more sleep. But fuck that.

Here's a largely irrelevant quote:

the arbitrary border stands
a line of blood through stolen lands
that little flag upon your sleeve
shows off you're stupid and naïve
or maybe you believe the lies
through beady ignoramus eyes
it's no surprise you're outta luck
your mama raised a stupid fuck
oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
we'll all sleep when we're dead

Immigrants & Hypocrites -Star Fucking Hipsters

Happy New Year.

Put that Bacinator down...

For over 30 years bakers in Zanesville, members of Bakers Local 57 have produced all the buns for Wendy's. They've had a decent relationship with management and have supported their families with good paying jobs, health care and have retired with real pensions. They've been a solid support for the Zanesville community, paying taxes, supporting local schools, etc. When Dave Thomas started Wendy's, it was a local, family owned business, with decent food at fair prices that treated its workers decently. Now all that is changing, due to an epidemic of corporate greed.

Recently, Wendy's was taken over by another corporate giant; Arby's. Not content with the massive profits they're now making, Arby's has issued demands that the workers in Zanesville give up their health care, one vacation week and job rights. Even worse, they are stealing the retiree's health care and wiping out all pensions for new retirees.

"This is just outright corporate greed at its most vicious, and this at holiday time," stated Bakers Union Business Agent Vester Newsome. "We need to stand together and draw a line somewhere to protect regular working families. We're going to stand up for justice and we ask the public to stand with us!"

[From Boycott Wendy's! » peoplesworld]

More Info: Justice for Wendys Bakers