Archive for April 20th, 2004

Me and Butterscotch have a running debate over lime Kool-Aid. She swears that she never had Lemon-Lime, only Lime, but I’ve never heard of plain ol’ lime. The only green Kool-Aid I’ve ever seen is L-L. So If any of y’all have ever seen or had Lime (no Lemon) Kool-Aid, please let me know. The only thing I can think of is that it was a regional thing. (Butterscotch lived in Texas, while I was in northern lllinois.) What got us into this whole discussion is that she said that green Kool-Aid is better than red Kool-Aid. I might be wrong about the existence of Lime, but she’s outta her wig, talkin’ about green Kool-Aid is better than either of the two main red Kool-Aids, Tropical Punch, or Cherry (with Tropical Punch being the best flavor of all -read down to the Kool-Aid epands section).

(Speaking of the Kool-Aid Man, the only episode of The Family Guy I’ve ever seen had me literally rolling in the floor unable to breathe. They were in the court room and all the characters in the family were like, “Oh no!” then KAM came bustin’ in talkin’ about “OH YEAAHHH!” I thought I was gonna suffocate.)

Line of the day- “I got so much trouble on my mind/refuse to lose”- Chuck D

Walking around through a neighborhood in Northern Virginia that I’m pretty familar with, I saw this car, an Infiniti with about 3 confederate bumper stickers. First of all, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody put a bumper sticker on an Infiniti before, but again, what’s with the confederacy? (note: I don’t capitalize ‘confederate’ on purpose.) What’s to celebrate? And I know there were some Blacks in the confederacy, just like there were some Black slaveholders. Like that makes it legitimate. Truthfully, that’s one of the reasons that I can never go fully conservative. That flag is a deal breaker for me. No matter what else is going on, once I see that flag, there’s nothing left to talk about. (Unless I’m trying to find out that the devil s up with the support of the confederacy.) And this is just me, bt honestly, when I see that emblem on a bumper sticker, or even worse, flying, it makes me nervous. Not so much because of what the flag originally represented, although I detest that, but I don’t think people really realize that that thing had fallen into disuse until the Civil Rights movement. (’cept the klan. They used it fairly regularly.)Now, I’m not the type to start a ruckus, but if provoked, I will finish one. The confederate flag does not constitute provocation for me, but it does make me suspect that the flag flyer might start something. In cases like that, the extra weight of an Intratec 9 wouldn’t be such a bother.