Don't know if I posted this yet, but if I did I'm sorry. It's Monday, what can I say?

Last week, the local Socialist Party (you'd be surprised how many of them there are) had a fund-raiser/keg party. They opened up their party headquarters, hired a couple of DJ's, grabbed a few Oppressed People Poets to read poetry about being oppressed, and threw themselves a fund-raiser. Total kegger, dude. Or, comrade. Whatever.

Kind of sorry I didn't stop by 'cause I'm kind of curious as to what a party for the Socialist Party would be like. You'd figure, of course, that because they are all Socialists and trying to raise money for the Cause, they'd throw a party that would be slightly Socialist in it's bent. Since it's a party and not a factory, the whole means of production doesn't really matter, but there are things that could still apply. Socialism is, after all, all about share and share alike and how everyone shouldn't have more than other people. Because people having more than other people is, of course, a bad (bad) thing.

So, I'm wondering, for instance, is if there's a rule about bringing alcohol. Like how you wouldn't be allowed to bring something unless you have enough for everyone. Say you bring a six-pack of Zima (although I don't think Zima would be very popular with the Socialist set, but you never know). If you only share it with your friends, it's unfair to all the people who didn't bring Zima. They aren't able to share what you brought. And if you only bring some for yourself and put it in a fridge for everyone, what happens when it runs out? If someone who wanted the Zima didn't get one, that would be wrong. Because why should they be penalized for, say, not being as fast a drinker as other people. Or having to wait in a long line for the bathroom. Or not being fast enough to drink it.

And what about if someone hooks up and gets together with someone after the party. Is that fair to all the people who didn't hook up and score with somebody? Maybe the person who hooked up is good looking or a good scammer? Is that fair to the not good looking or scamming challenged? What makes one a good scammer or good-looking, is, of course, a social construct so it's unfair for those who society deems as unhookupable to be put down by those who would reject them.

And could you imagine the debate about what type of keg to get? Subcommittees upon subcommittees. Somebody would want Sierra, but somebody would be opposed because Sierra has been bought out by Budweiser (I don't know if it has been, but just go with me here). So someone might suggest, oh, Guiness, but somebody would say that they couldn't because Guinness say gives money to companies that chop down trees in the Rain Forrest. And don't even get me started on who makes kegs…….