Mind if I don't actually smoke?

I read about E-cigarettes this morning. They may or may not be bad for you- get this- depending upon who you believe! Ain't that life these days? It is all in what you believe.

It's always been this way with coffee, for example. One week a survey will say that coffee (the elixir of the Gods and Ferrerman) is *good* for you. The next it will say that coffee is *bad*. Though caffeine is a stimulant, evidently, studying caffeine is an exercise in manic depression.

I just go along, enjoying coffee the same regardless of what they say.

Who are they? Politicians? Pundits? Those theys are one and the same. Those lines got blurred years ago. Is there a difference between Glenn Beck and any Congressman? Politics is all about selling selling something to someone and Glenn Beck will try to sell snow to Eskimos if someone will pay him to do that. I mention him because on Facebook I saw a clip of his show from June of this year, where he shows a clip of a rebel leader in Syria cutting out the heart of a rival soldier and eating it...

Well, you won't see Brian Williams show that on his program. I'm not even sure if back in June Brian even mentioned that guy doing that. The cannibal in question is someone that we would be giving guns and power to and Glenn's bit went on to show Russia's Vladimir Putin apparently asking (in Russian) if that was the sort of guy we wanted to give guns and power to. Very good question.

The answer probably is "yes". A better question might be, why is Glenn Beck siding with Putin? I don't fucking know. He started whining about progressive democrats AND republicans and why they would give guns to that guy and take them away from YOU....so, I guess that was the point of that. I really think he just goes up there and wings it. He's a failed stand up comic and I think he falls  back on that and just riffs to see who is paying attention rather than laughing. It's not about what he says, it's all in how he says it that reels certain people in and keeps them coming back.

I'm not well versed in the Syria situation. I know it's a ...syriass...situation but my take on it is we're going to do whatever we do based on money rather than morals or any sort of humanity. Duh! Gassing people is awful but, awful shit happens all over the world ever day. It's just more urgent when it happens on ground that has oil under it. Sorry, Africa.

So, are e-cigs as bad as regular cigarettes? We will probably never know because, like everything else in the world today, it's  a matter of opinion. The e-cigs are essentially cigarettes without smoke. There's a vapor instead of smoke and a thing that you fake-smoke it out of that looks like a cigarette...and that's probably the problem. It's likely safe as all get out but- BUT- the government or somebody in authority thinks it might promote smoking real cigarettes so, a study has to be commissioned that finds e-cigs to be just fucking awful. It's like battling obesity. Any fucking billionaire moron knows that you have to ban large sodas to eliminate obesity. Again- DUH!

Frankly, I think they are just looking for a way to tax the bejesus out of e-cigs like they do the real ones. That's a money-maker and that is what makes the world go around. You heard it here first.