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In 2011, 70% of the population in one poll favored legalization of marijuana for medical use. Thankfully our Congress doesn’t serve the people, though; otherwise we’d have a bunch of sick pot heads.
The Mormon bartender is scared.
Picture the hang-dog faced cast of Napoleon Dynamite. Try to remember the frumpier extras in the back. Now try to imagine the pudgier ones who didn’t make final cut. And you have the scared Mormon bartender.
He doesn’t have the cast’s awkward, goofy charm. He has a mullet, a gift for awkward silences, a name tag that reads Tyler. So he wasn’t in Napoleon Dynamite. He is the scared Mormon bartender at Outback Steakhouse.
Tyler doesn’t know much about alcohol. But he doesn’t have the social grace for reception up front, either. So management sticks him in the back. At the bar. With less lighting and, this being Provo, Utah, with few to no drinking customers.
Except tonight. Tonight I am hosting a senior sales manager from France.
And the Mormon bartender is scared.
Crafting high-yield and disease-resistant wheat varieties, Borlaug ushered in the “Green Revolution” in impoverished countries like Mexico, Pakistan and India in the 1960s, saving around a billion people around the world from starvation. As much as predatory corporations like Monsanto might lead you to believe, genetically-modified organisms can do good for more than just their makers.
As if the gun debate weren’t enough of a hassle as it is–can you imagine if there were a passage in the Bible that could have been twisted into a pro-gun argument?
In May of last year, you would be hard-pressed to find a single soul in the country who wasn’t tweeting, texting or telephoning another regarding Obama’s so-called revolutionary (emphasis on “evolutionary”) stance on gay marriage. Earth shattering? Hardly, especially since a plurality of Americans at that time already supported the novel notion that homosexuals who pay the same taxes and abide by the same laws should also be afforded the same opportunities to marry whom they please.
And yet, it served its purpose. In the same month, as unmanned drones–another Obama endorsement–killed several “militants” in Yemen on legally indefensible and morally bankrupt grounds, most Americans were too busy replaying the hallowed Robin Roberts ABC interview on YouTube to notice, let alone care about our brave president’s markedly less courageous affairs abroad. Marriage equality, the 21st century response to the 1960′s civil rights movement, was finally upon us. Nearly four years into the worst collapse since the Great Depression, change, it seemed, had arrived. “Hope” was no longer tri-colored and two-dimensional, and the wave of social progress, inclusivity and tolerance had crested and its strength could not be stopped. And for your information, Ms. Palin, that hopey-changey stuff is working out great.
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