Tequila lovers everywhere should be worried. Tequila may become a beverage of the past as Mexico is leaving the cactus-like plant from which it is made for more profitable crops. Cash crops like wheat and corn are much more profitable than blue agave.

Agave was worth about 80 cents per pound six years ago and now sells for about two cents or less!

Many farmers are burning their agave crops to make room for new harvests. Corn is mostly where the money is now. Plus, agave takes six years to grow. That is a huge investment to potentially lose. So I guess tequila is scarce, get it while you can!

So there’s this bum hangout right around the corner from the Synthesis office. It’s like this shelter for young adults who want to sit around all day smoking cigarettes and hanging on the couch in the air conditioning with their pit bull mix instead of, well, anything else. Today on my way to get coffee, Dain and I walked by this young derelict who asks, almost as an afterthought, if he could bum a cigarette. It might have been a cold move, but this was my response:

I think singing one bar of the The Silhouettes’ “Get a Job” got my point across.

Being a dick is awesome.

Here’s the new PETA ad featuring Alicia Silverstone.

Do you need to ask why?