In a box, bitches!

I quit smoking in December (no kudos please, it was by necessity, not choice) and I've been looking around for a new vice to take the edge off my dreary existence. Supposed nice-girl baylorsr suggested public self-gratification but I thought the risk of arrest was too high, plus it's been damn cold out.

I decided to settle on drinking only to find out it's rather expensive. I used to buy wine so infrequently that I always bought something over $10 a bottle but if I'm going to make a habit out of this I've had to dig around for something cheaper and cheaper. The cheapest bottle I could find was $6.99 but all of a sudden it hit me...WINE IN A BOX. Three liters for $9.99, it's unbreakable, easy to carry home and it's like having a CHARDONNAY TAP IN YOUR FRIDGE. A TAP! OF CHARDONNAY!! Not to mention this cheap stuff packs a Thunderbird-like punch. More bang for your buck!

Highly recommended.

WTF!?!?

( SPN 4:12!?!? )

How Swede It Is

Bill O'Reilly sez:

"Far-left zealots want to destroy America so they can rebuild it as a socialistic paradise, a hyper-Sweden."

This isn't the first time I've heard a conservative disparaging Sweden as some hellhole that we'd never want to be like. Why, oh why are conservatives so revolted by Sweden? What did Sweden ever do to them? Is it the safe cars? The reasonably priced flat-packed furniture? The ubiquitous crispbread?? WHAT??

The truth is, whenever you see those worldwide quality-of-life rankings, Sweden tends to be pretty high up on the list. The Swedes are healthier, better educated, greener and generally happier than Americans...than most other people in the world. What would be so terrible about becoming more like Sweden?

Far-right zealots like O'Reilly wanted to destroy America and rebuild it as an out-of-control industrialist nightmare like...China. A totalitarian state where the government controls the flow of information to the public, civil liberties are virtually nonexistent, a very few get very rich off the grinding toil and poverty of the masses and an almost complete lack of government regulation of industry blights the landscape and poisons children with leaden toys and melamine milk.

I don't know about you guys, but given a choice, I'd rather see America "rebuilt" as Sweden, not China.