This god damn place is all going to bullshit hell in a fucking handbasket, I say.

What the fuck is this shit?

• 
  An airplane gets shot out of the sky.
• A country invades another country.
• Some other country invades another sorta-country.
• A Canadian senator is facing multiple criminal charges.
• Johnny Winter is no longer alive and well.
• Little kids are getting hit by vans and falling out of windows.

And, to top it off, there's no baseball tonight because we're still in the All-Star Break. These assholes earn millions of dollars a year and they need FOUR days off in the middle of the summer?

Well, at least there's beer. And, owing to The One And Only Matt's appearance in town last weekend, plus a couple of other engagements, I had a streak of seven consecutive days wherein I ordered at least one beer at a bar. That got broken up tonight, but rest assured, I had an Atwater Vanilla Java Porter with dinner tonight, so the self-pickling streak definitely continues.

Ah, holidays.