-no matter how tempted you are, tickets to see charlie sheen smoke and bitch are not worth it, especially at $750 a piece
-no matter how irrelevant it may seem, giving up scotch for lent? it's the pits, man.
-no matter how hard i try to defend the political and social stance i've taken my whole life, it's time to admit that i'm wrong. gay marriage should and needs to be legalized. now. you see, throughout the most cognitive portions of my life, i've been of the thought that, while gay and lesbian couples should have every right guaranteed that any straight couple would, the term "marriage" was just off limits. after watching mere minutes, and passing ones at that, of the bachelor this week, i have to say that any aspect of marriage i felt too sacred to change is gone. if we can make a spectacle of manufactured romance and fake reality with 20 roses being given out, all culminating in what is supposed to be, even if only for shear entertainment value, an honest marriage proposal? if the assholes behind nbc can make a spectacle of marriage, let the gays and lesbians have it. honestly. i have some really great friends that are gay and i would trust them in any way possible 7 days a week over any single contestant that has ever been on any reality dating show. (that is, of course, with the exception of arnold schwarzenegger.) so, really, i've simply been wrong. my own insecurities about the rate at which our culture is evolving precluded me from supporting a cause i now have come to accept is, really, just fine. i don't have to agree with their lifestyle to know they're better people than any douchebag that's handing out or being handed a rose on national television. let them marry, it's only right.