Taking 1 Corinthians 9:22b too far?

Brent's Kickin' Mango Vinaigrette

• 1 medium-large mango, not quite ripe (if your fingers get sticky when handling it, it's more ripe than the one I used, but that would probably be delicious)
• extra virgin olive oil, red wine vinegar, white vinegar, lime juice, sugar, chile powder, and garam masala to taste.

Put everything in a blender and pulse until emulsified.

(Yes, I wish I'd taken better notes while I was concocting this.)

Offer

A few questions about the "rock-like stick" I was offered yesterday morning:

• Define "rock-like." Is this stick created from minerals? Synthetic mineral-like substances?
• Is this stick useful for, say, slaying Philistine giants? What about other instances where I would typically use a rock?
• It sounds like you expect me to pay for this stick--rocks are free. What advantages does the stick have over the rock in these instances?
• What additional things could I do with a rock-like stick that I cannot do with an ordinary stick (which is also free)?
• Does the simplicity of having a single rock-like stick over needing both a stick and rock justify the cost of the newer device?
• Now that I think about it, wouldn't a truly rock-like stick be neither stick nor rock? Am I not signing up for the worst of both worlds?

I love spam.

Correlation/Causation

The spouse and I have, over the course of the last couple of years, noticed a disturbing correlation between aggressive driving (speeding up and whipping in to traffic in construction zones, passing then turning left, turning right at no turn on red intersections, weaving from one lane to another) and "In God We Trust" license plates.

Does being an aggressive driver lead one to obtain an "In God We Trust" plate as something of a ward against one's own aggressive driving? Or does professing trust in God lead one to think one's actions on the road will be rendered inert by the deity? Or is there some root cause that leads both to aggressive driving and obtaining an "In God We Trust" plate?

Or maybe I just notice the aggressive driving more because of the presence of the plate? Nah, couldn't be.