"Another Picture..."

Here's a couple of photos that I manipulated with Photoshop... I figured that at least my stalker Eryc could appreciate them.

Enjoy!

"Have You Ever Wondered 4: The Prophet Returns"

Hey everyone, I had a couple of things floating through my head this week, so I figured that I'd write something about them, and here they are!

1.) Four-Way Stops... why do they still exist? If we have the technology that allows us to determine who a killer is based off of the DNA in the saliva residue that they find on the end of a cigarette butt, why are we sitting in place, shouting at the person to our right to "GO!!! Just Goooo!!!"? Well, that can be easily explained as a problem that applies to every aspect of life in America, can't it? How much time do you have to spend in the DMV every year? This country has a boner for standing in line to do everything, from getting your own money out of an ATM at the mall, to waiting to get to use a bathroom at a bar to commuting to work over any distance, when it's basically just waiting in a line that moves a little faster.

Your whole life is made up of orderly, slow marching towards paying someone else to do this or that when you shouldn't have to, and you find yourself three stops from home, stopped at a vacant four-way stop, looking left, right, forward and backwards, thinking, "No wonder those people that work for the Post Office lose it and kill their co-workers... they finally understand that there really is no spoon." I don't care what the country hicks that live in the middle of nowhere think, we should have fuckin' stop lights at every intersection. If you want to live in a rustic, middle-of-nowhere locale, move to Amish Country... they don't like the 21st Century, either.

2.) C0-Pays are a problem for me... and here's why. I pay my Medical and Dental out of every paycheck, so why am I paying more just to have a Doctor do his damn job?! You know, I'd rather be in Canada, where your taxes are higher, but at least you have a National Health Care System. Second to the Chinese that work for Wal-Mart manufacturing plants in Mainland China, we work the longest days and weeks of any industrialized nation in the world, so what is the point of having partial Health Insurance?! I pay you $80-plus a month to make sure that if I do get sick, I can get it taken care of... so why do I have to give you more money? Here's what happens: You go to your Doctor, and he checks you out ($15), gives you a prescription ($10) and refers you to a specialist, who checks you out as well ($15) and send you to get a lab work-up done ($15). Now, do you really need to pay $55 just to have two-to-five people look at the same thing? Ridiculous... and on top of all that, you have to take time off of work to get that done, which takes even more money out of your pockets!

3.) Religious Pharmacists are getting worse and worse in this country. If you don't know the deal with these assholes, let Big Daddy Todd lay in on you, my man. Some Pharmacists are choosing to not issue prescriptions to women such as the morning after pill for women that suffered being raped and birth control pills because they view it as an attack on unborn children. WHAT THE FUCK?! Who the hell do these fuck-ups think they are?! You're a fucking Pharmacist! Your job is just to issue pills to people that a Doctor prescribed, not to determine whether the sinner on the other side of the counter should be allowed to go on commiting such sins as eating a hotdog on a Friday and having primal, lubricated, lustful intercourse with whoever their boning at that moment in their lives.

I don't get how these people (probably white, boring people who have nothing better to do than be religious) are allowed to still keep practicing... at what point do you stop being a Pharmacist, and start being a religious conservative prick who wishes to interfere in someone else's life? Your job is to meter, measure and deliver prescription medication to those that need them, not to decide whether or not they need them. There's another profession that takes care of that: it's called a D-O-C-T-O-R. And last time I checked, asshole... that little Diploma on the wall doesn't say that's your job. So put those pills in the bottle and keep your narrow-minded religious views to yourself. No one gives a shit about what you think, and you have no place to enforce what you think on others.

And that's it for this installment everyone, enjoy the many different Holidays that are rapidly approaching.