Let's Go To Uranus and Wipe Out the Klingons
Thursday, Jan. 11, 2007 at 11:02 a.m.
On this day in 1964, The US Surgeon General warns against smoking for the first time. It's amazing how many dumbshits need to be told that inhaling smoke is harmful.
Here in Arizona, the bill passed to make Arizona completely non-smoking in all public places by May 1. This includes, of course, bars and grills, which is usually where the Hubster and I prefer to eat. We�re both very happy about the bill passing, but I can see how a lot of people are upset by this. Really, one of the few times I�d like a cigarette is when I have been drinking beer, and it seems that a bar is the perfect place to smoke. I honestly wouldn�t have minded if bars and taverns (ones that served no food) remained smoking. I figure once food is in the mix, it should be a non-smoking place.
However, before all this went down, I went to a Chamber mixer held at a bar/dance club over in Tempe (which has been non-smoking for a couple of years now) and asked the bar owner how he felt about the upcoming smoking ban and why he started a bar like this in Tempe, and he felt that he actually had better business because it was non-smoking. He�d been opening and running bars for the past twenty years, so I figured he knew how to flow with a trend.
I wonder though, about the little towns like Eloy and Egar and Why (yes, there�s a town called Why in Arizona. Why? Why not?) and how they�d handle the state-wide smoking ban, since they don�t have all the choices of business that the larger cities have. However, the Indian nations are not subject to this law. You�ll be able to smoke as much as you want on the reservations and in the Indian casinos. I wonder how much they�ll capitalize on that. They should.
A lot of people, I�m sure, will begin to ask Where Will It All End? First, smoking, and then who knows what. It�s bad enough that Big Brother is already tapping our phone lines and tracking what kind of groceries we buy. What will be prohibited next?
What? No dumplings?? No more boiled blobs of dough that don�t needs to be chewed and are the best part of a chicken stew? How dare they! It makes me want to do this:
Well, the sign says! It does! But how am I supposed to wrap around this kind of command?
�No Dumping�? But . . . but . . . Can�t someone show me a sign? A good sign, please??
Okay, that�ll do!