Whining about Wine

If Jesus had never turned water into wine, hundreds of thousands of deaths (and counting) may have never occurred. Actually, all of the wars in the history of mankind were fought in the name of God, so I guess you could credit Jesus (or his foreign equivalents) for hundreds of millions of deaths, but that's another scoop of ice cream all together. My point here is, if alcohol was completely absent from the Bible, our culture may not look at it as such a Godsend.
While American jails fill up with harmless marijuana offenders, alcohol kills; It ruins judgment, reputations, and lives...but there is no escape...Booze ads are everywhere...Bars line the streets...Alcohol related behavior is tolerated... Expected...Encouraged?
It is legal to drive with alcohol in your blood. Only it's a game. Individuals are responsible for monitoring their own B.A.L.'s, but no available way to do so exists. This creates a dangerous guessing game, and we leave the guessing up to the intoxicated individual, even when evidence overwhelmingly proves that alcohol dissolves a person's judgment. Why do we allow this deadly cycle to continue?
Because alcohol is in the bible, so it can't be that bad.
It is amazingly stupid how people interpret the Bible to suit their needs, but it's been going on since the beginning. At least Jesus never tried a line of Meth...

Pleasant Dreams

I'm always looking forward to something. The end of my shift, the end of my work week, my tv show at 8:00, whatever. Sometimes I look forward to an hour-long event for MONTHS. Why can't I just be satisfied in the moment? I think I'm satisfied, until I remember that there's a baseball game on later, then I wish for the time to go by quickly...but time is short.
I'm 29 and I'm single, but every day I go to work, go to school, go home, and do it again the next day. When am I supposed to make life's next big transitions? Why are the girls I'm interested in already taken? Am I destined to be alone, eating Chunky soups, playing internet fantasy baseball on my free time? That sounds absolutely horrible for the long term. Am I going to be one of those dudes who puts off a social life for years, until he becomes unable to maintain normal relationships? Oh shit, I hope not. I mean, I'm already one of those dudes who dumped his entire social circle in search of a better crowd. The problem is, I still haven't even looked for, let alone found a comfort zone to call my own, and I keep getting older.
(This is some of the great stuff that goes through my mind as I try to fall sleep)