Retired Doughnuts and the Life Checklist
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Did you know? Voodoo Doughnut used to offer a Nyquil Glazed doughnut and a Vanilla Pepto Crushed Tums doughnut, but they were ordered by health officials to stop selling them.
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Some searches that have led people to my blog:
1) “biggest dingleberry”
2) “dingleberry cotton balls”
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Some thoughts on marriage from David Rochester:
But I do have an odd idea about marriage, which is that the people who really need the formality of it are people who probably shouldn’t be married. I think that for many folks, the vow, that external authority, takes the place of the very hard and soul-searching work of getting up every day, assessing yourself and your partner and your life together, and consciously re-committing to it. I tend to be suspicious of marriage, for that reason. I hear people who are miserable together say that they are still married because they took that vow. Well, that’s a really shitty reason, if you ask me. A vow is only as good as the genuine intent behind it, and if that’s gone, the vow is a mockery of itself.
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Some thoughts on having kids by Tim Kreider:
Most of my married friends now have children, the rewards of which appear to be exclusively intangible and, like the mysteries of some gnostic sect, incommunicable to outsiders. In fact it seems from the outside as if these people have joined a dubious cult: they claim to be much happier and more fulfilled than ever before, even though they live in conditions of appalling filth and degradation, deprived of the most basic freedoms and dignity, and owe unquestioning obedience to a capricious and demented master.
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I don’t begrudge people who’re married who don’t *need* to be married, to define who they are–I’d say the friends I have who married *wanted* it, but didn’t need it. That said, I think it’s perfectly valid to neither need nor want it. I think some sort of celebration and recognition of a choice made to share lives can be a good thing–but I don’t think the government has any role to play, as far as that goes. So I’m not sure whether I believe civil unions and the legal benefits they extend should be available to everyone–or whether there simply shouldn’t be any “marriage” benefits, period. But it probably doesn’t matter–non-wed couples will continued to be a discriminated-against class, just as will be renters (versus home owners), non-religions-subscribers (versus adherents), non-drivers (versus drivers), non-war-makers (versus soldiers), etc. for the foreseeable future. Marriage is one of those “institutions” that just isn’t likely to be changed much, so maybe it’s better to expand those who can join its privileged ranks, rather than wish the privilege didn’t exist.
That sucks. They should have kept those flavors under wraps…like an underground doughnut