Grifter-no-more

My friend's got a girlfriend
((((and)))) he hates that bitch
He tells me every day
He says "man I really gotta lose my chick
In the worst kind of way"

She sits on her ass
He works his hands to the bone
To give her money every payday
But she wants more dinero just to stay at home
Well my friend
You gotta say:

I won't pay, I won't pay ya, no way
now now Why don't you get a job
Say no way, say no way ya, no way
now now Why don't you get a job

I guess all his money, well it isn't enough
To keep her bill collectors at bay
I guess all his money, well it isn't enough
Cause that girl's got expensive taste

I won't pay, I won't pay ya, no way
now now Why don't you get a job
Say no way, say no way ya, no way
now now Why don't you get a job

Well I guess it ain't easy doing nothing at all oh yeah
But hey man free rides just don't come along
every day

Let me tell you about my other friend now

My friend's got a boyfriend ((((and)))) she hates that dick
She tells me every day
He wants more dinero just to stay at home
Well my friend
You gotta say:

I won't pay, I won't pay ya, no way
now now Why don't you get a job
Say no way, say no way ya, no way
now now Why don't you get a job
oh yeah
I won't give ya no money
I always pay
now now Why don't you get a job
Say no way, say no way ya, no way
now now Why don't you get a
job!

(I'm newly employed, don'tchaknow)

Furthermore

I made the recovered cherry coke ice crystals into alcohol-filled ICEE's with the magic bullet and some Kahlua. It tastes pretty much like what I expected: ok. But it enrages me when I drink my salvaged Coke smoothie and read on weather.com that a plurality of online voters, (39.4%) do not think that global warming is true.

Frankly, I'm surprised at this. I don't understand how this misconception is out there. I offer my armchair ruminations:

1. Shoddy science reporting. Even though our society is increasingly driven by technology and this technology relies on advances in science, the layperson has a very ill-informed view on science or how the scientific method works. Blame schools all you want, but I'm of the opinion that this is because people have very ill-informed views on just about anything not relating to their narrow experience. I may be really into environmental chemistry and air pollution control and measurement, but I don't know a whole lot about (say) livestock.

I feel like people have this too-perfect view of science. If a man with a white lab coat says it is true, it Must Be So. Furthermore, complicated variables, conflicting data, systematic and random error do not exist- everyone must agree on science. As a corollary, when two scientists disagree, the effect they are researching must not be very scientific. The jury's still out.

But it's not. There is a huge consensus that the Earth is warming. You may blame it on sun spots or random chance or volcanoes, but you don't get to blame it on the Jew-run media anymore.

2. Shoddy political work. Why is this even a political issue? Democrats are more likely to believe in global warming, Republicans are more likely to not believe in it. This might be a nefarious plot by the Republicans to Destroy the Planet, but I'm more apt to quote Upton Sinclair: "If a man's paycheck depends on his not understanding something, you can rely upon his not understanding it." Sorry, oil companies.

Disaster!

Someone put two cans of Cherry Coke Zero in the freezer where they exploded. I cut my thumb taking one of the cans out, and can only hope that I've brushed out the remaining bits of frozen Coke from on top of the chicken breasts, ice cream, and venison steak.

I hope I don't get tetanus from this.