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My Sweet Smouldering Treasure

Thursday, 2009 June 25 10:37 PM CDT — Grand Forks, North Dakota UNITED STATES

So, Obama, the supposed “saviour of the universe” has just pissed me off. What did he do? He made my favourite cigarettes illegal! Judas! I thought that he was one of us…

…well, I kind of quit smoking about a year ago,1 so why should I care? Still, is it just me or has society taken it a bit too far with the tobacco-is-bad thing? I mean, there are people pushing to have any appearance of tobacco in a film grounds for an automatic ‘R’ rating. I'm not quite sure that Sherlock Holmes with a pipe is of the same moral equivalence of… say… rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.

  1. Give or take two months or so. I didn't keep track of the exact day.

Quote to ponder: “There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.” — Katharine Whitehorn

Currently listening to…
King of Fools
By Delirious?
Released on Monday, 1997 June 16.

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