Took this picture with my iPhone today in the parking lot outside the neighborhood's favorite low-cost Mexican restaurant.

The last (heated) 'discussion' my wife and I got into was over recycling. Not that I wouldn't recycle, but that I was placing the new recyling bin on the curb, wrongly. Apparently, she read the new trash-recycling booklet that our city was nice enough to send to everyone.

Over 50 pages long!

Now, look, no fucking way am I gonna read a 50 page booklet on the proper way to trash and recycle. Because, how should I say this: I'M A FUCKING ADULT HUMAN BEING.

What do these have in common? Well, they are but two of the myriad examples of why we must -- and why we will -- destroy government.  I'm not gonna tell you how to put out your recycling bin every fortnight (not weekly, according to my well-read wife). Nor am I gonna tell you to drink raw milk, although a quick Google search will likely point you to its numerous (reputed) benefits.

Rather, I will tell you what our government allows and lets children buy. How about, say, a Ritz cracker:

Ingredients: ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), SOYBEAN OIL, SUGAR, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, SALT, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA AND/OR CALCIUM PHOSPHATE), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, SOY LECITHIN (EMULSIFIER), NATURAL FLAVOR, CORNSTARCH.