C2H5OH or "The tale of two livers"

I'm not the best person to talk about alcohol, for my experience with it has never been a personal one, and I am strongly biased against it, but I have to, and I will. The reason for alcohol's popularity is that it's easy to produce in any part of the world, but the reason for it's prevalence and status (Can anybody imagine a university degree in "tabacology" or "cocainology" in wich teachers explain and study the drugs only to explain wich one "tastes better" and describe them as "a valuable part of our culture to be promoted"?) are that it creates "only" moderate adicction, it produces no significant long-term damage below a Threshold, and it's consumers (except the very frequent ones) are not subjected to (almost any) discrimination or criticism. It's effects are akin to other depressant drugs, diminishing the brain's capabilities. In short, it makes you think less. I'm not going to enter into the discussion of whether people has the right to do whatever they want with their boddies, including making themselves more stupid, but I think it is obvious that we teenagers don't. I have to accept, no matter how hard it is to me, that moderate use of alcohol by responsible adults has no harmful effects (My head is gonna explode!). But even if that doesn't mean that all adults are responsible, as the state of Massachusetts proved yesterday (They were all drunk, ¿Right?), I accept "dry law" is not the solution. My plan to engage alcoholism is to long for this blog, and involves things that make the public opinion rather "jumpy", like chemicals in the watter supply or compulsory breathalyzers, so I will just ignore it. I think a good way to combat juvenile alcoholism is to make alcoholic beverages more expensive by taxing them (Limbaugh is right: Leftist think taxing is the solution to everything), specially if they are spirits, and giving the authority to policemen to confiscate any alcohol in the hands of people under 18. Also, those medieval fines on drunkenness should be reenacted, and the money could be used to fund AA-like associations, the rest being pocketed by the state. After all, we are still in a recession.

P.D. Really, how drunk do you have to be to break a filibuster-proof democrat congress that can (However mildly) bring change? Don't you have enough with Joe "Even I don't know how I managed to go with Gore back in 2000" Lieberman? Is either a drug or Pat Robertson is contagious.

Fashion

What's in and what's out? Well, that's relative, but That's next to saying nothing, as everything is. But to drill down that vacuous explanation, I might indicate that there are plenteous in & outs for different geographical, social and historic contexts (Witch burning was "in" in the pre-democratical american colonies, whilst democracy is "out" among the ruling class of corporatist China and Quantum Physics is "in" among MIT students). But asuming Ernesto wants me to write about in & out in my social, geographical(This is a good way to bat away saying Spain/Euskadi, huh?) and historic context, I might have a chance to do a meticulous yet relatively small post (That's just naïve, accounting for how pedantic and pernickety I am, but you can chalk it up to my juvenility*)

There are things that are preposterously in, as Belen Esteban(Anybody else wishes witch burning was in again?) or that infectious and most profusely used adjective "mitico". Others are in without popular consent, like being "made redundant", but most of things in are moderately so for a reason, however absurd this might be(Except those who are because of marketing, be it temporarily (The lattest genocided people, soon to be forgotten) or continuously(Clothing with corporate logos wich is astronomically more expensive than it's ad-free counterparts)). These would be Ipods, distilled beverages heretically mixed with sugared beverages, Vomitive TV shows, (Why doesn't anybody watch "How I met your mother" or "The big bang theory"?) music I try to ignore or vulgar, mindless, asyntactic, vocabularyless (Made those two up, but you can guess what they mean) talk wich is transforming our languages in "Permanent bushisms"(Bravo fellas, bravo).

I would write about what's out, but my bile is overflowing my circulatory system and I have to go to the hospital. Mind you, madman's bile is pretty corrosive, so try not to think about all this.


*There you have, Ernie, plenty of debonair(There I go again!) Phrasal verbs and "awesome" adjectives.