Pixels and words aren't the person?

Okay, what is? Gene Wilder the baby? Christopher Hitchens the adolescent? None of us are even the same person from moment to moment.

I know, Death is spooky black stark nothing, and this is supposed to be the great looming threat which drives us all into the warm embrace of the holy church.

Ignoring the fact that the scenery is made of balsawood and you can see the ropes holding up the angels.

But nothing is "nothing". Certainly not nothing. There's no such thing as nothing. So-called "empty space" is teeming with things popping in and out of existence all the time, borrowing time and matter and energy and probability from the randomness, uncertainty and chaos that is the REAL firmament underlying everything.

It's not that I'm not scared of anything, but I'm certainly not scared of nothing, Rug.

(It also may be completely meaningless to try and speak of what is "outside" existence, because by definition there is no outside, but that's a post for a different day)

Gene Wilder - and Christopher Hitchens to boot- the individual, the ego, the organizational system of molecules holding forth for however many decades against the relentless and always victorious forces of entropy? Gone. But where? Back to the nameless, the Tao, the great mother of the ten thousand things which has no name and can never be created or destroyed. That's not Misty-eyed, that IS the stark reality.

At least, that's what I choose to think this week. You think whatever the fuck you want, holmes. Your head, not mine.

How's that, for "preaching"?

He should find more wholesome hobbies. Like, eating at McDonalds.

i hear the McChicken is excellent.

CPR

...you're doing it wrong.

Apparently she would do anything for Trump

but she WON'T DO THAT

APPROVES

...

it's not 'sneaking' anything. People get medical benefit from it AND people should be able to

use it recreationally if they're consenting adults.

Medical use laws highlight the ridiculousness of, say, SWAT teams dragging a terminally ill cancer patient off to prison in his wheelchair for smoking a joint. Which happens way too much.

And yes, if a terminally ill cancer patient should be able to decide what to put into his body, so should the rest of us.


But you are correct, the DEA shouldnt make the call, and they wont, anyway (clearly) because they have a vested interest in the status quo.

Unfortunately congress skews heavily and unfairly towards inherent social conservatism, because although the majority of Americans are progressive and liberal on social issues, those people are concentrated highly in certain congressional districts and under-represented by the inherent structure of the US Senate.

some people live in perpetual anguish that others somewhere might actually be having a good time.

God, I listen to them, and I think how absolutely miserable their own lives must be, to spend all that time pissed off, banging their tiny clenched fists ineffectually, and fulminating about what is, after all, fairly ordinary and normal human behavior.

It's Nebraska.

Even the sex scandals are boring.