Musings on not drinking after one year...

It sucks.

How do we spell relief? D-E-A-D!

Good morning, everyone!  And to everyone who cares, Bin Laden is DEAD!!!!!  Let us rejoice that the man we were told was responsible for 9/11 has been killed!!!  To all the families who lost a loved one during the events of that tragic day, you can now sleep tight knowing that, while it took us nearly a full decade, America brought justice to the culpable individual.  Your mouths frothed and seethed with the need and taste for iron and blood, and our leaders have delivered as promised. 

For sustinance?  No.  Hope?  No.  Safety?  No.  Does it bring reason?  No.  For it will not fill you hearts or bellies.  This is just to satisfy the vengeful god-complex that lives within us all.  Congratulations, folks!  Nothing has been accomplished.

Gun owners should not rejoice and "pious" people should not celebrate.  This is just another example of a symptom being attacked.  Bin Laden didn't kill all those people.  At best, he drafted the blueprints.  Extremism killed all those people.  And rather then root out the cause; the virus of thought that infects and compels beautiful, family-loving people to do such things, we play a game of global whack-a-mole.  Why?  Because when you grab at the end of the string of reason, the scariest thought may come in finding that the rope is tethered to ourselves. 

Today, we've become a more difficult culture.  Because today, what we said is that we are less concerned with solving a problem, and more concerned with appearing righteous.  This is all for your entertainment, and trust me, I hope you're all entertained because this is not the end.