Valentines-Schmalentines

     Tomorrow is Valentines day.  The day when all the nice loving couples express their love via slowly dying plant sexual organs (flowers) and ground up trees (paper cards).  Not to mention the oh-so-thoughtful gift of trans fats and high cholesterol in the form of chocolates.

     Most of them will even exchange gifts!  Propping up the severely flawed economy and debt system that is keeping most of the world in metaphorical chains.  Some of them will even go out on dates, further propping up the debt-ridden economy, and also adding stress to the already below minimum wage workers who serve food in restaurants.

     Then there's the people who buy JEWELRY for their loved ones.  Supporting bloodthirsty cartels who exploit native populations and child labor in their obscenely dangerous diamond mines.  All the while hoarding so many diamonds that, if released, would flood the market to the point where they become worthless.  This keeps the scarcity of diamonds (and thus their price) artificially high.

     But won't she look just LOVELY wearing all the blood of those innocent children around her neck?

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     Wow.  Ok.  I have no idea where that came from.  I am a happily married man, and I love my wife.  I don't think valentines day is a waste of time.  I'm seriously weirded out by that.  I think it's because I have a cold, and when I have a fever some seriously weird shit goes through my mind.

     Anyway, ignore the preceding and have a happy valentines day, everybody!