The human ability to ignore more pressing issues and


seeking to find in nature those chemicals that normally

occur in their own bodies, though apparently in not large

enough quantities to make them happy, has always

filled coffers of companies and tax collectors and

purveyors of such stuffs,

while leaving the moral and religious imperatives

of abstinence, a clear head and a sense of personal

responsibility in the dust.

Judges, unless they be of the religious sort, particularly

Muslim,

also tend to excuse behavior while inebriated or stoned

on legal medications that would get you a harsher

sentence if you had been sober.

There are a pile of people who would like to see a world of

utter (or at least profound) peace, with nobody killing nobody.

I'd like to see a world in which people are administered

their alcohol as if it were medicine, in controlled doses.

George Gobel is often quoted as having once said,

"I've never been drunk, but I've often been over-served."

I mean, too much of a good thing can kill you, can't it?

You might love your teddy bear, but if you were placed

in a large shipping container and the rest of the space

were filled with duplicates of your plush friend, you

might find the experience overwhelming within a few

minutes. Not only that, but the smell!

Don't you ever wash that thing?