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things fall apart, the center can not hold... why study anything? the drones are coming

emmigration has always been the solution for human political woes - it didn't happen by accident that the human-bean done went and sprouted all of the world after its humble african origins - we ain't ever been able to put up w/ each others shit, so spread we did, always over the next hill, the next ocean, the next desert, wahtever it took to get the fuck away from grandpa - the problem is we done run out of world to wreck - time to move the malice on to maelstrom above us!

read...fuck me! who has TIME to do taht these days? i barely can find 60 seconds on the can each morning to leaf through my selected works of thomas jefferson

good news, though i think the sad fact is that we're still a long, long, long way off, b/c it's not just bringing weed into the legal market - it's the hard drugs too...and prostitution...and probably a few other things...and also not creating a tax scheme aroudn it such that the black-market still is attractive (the current washington situation is illustrative - i don't know a single person using hte legal market b/c it's twice as expensive as the pre-existing one - this guy choked to death in new york underscores this - north-east liberals, god love'em, want to end smoking by making it cost a fortune to smoke, but that doens't actually make people quit smoking, just look for cheaper ways to buy smokes)

duh, economics ain't everything. i remember the freakonomics bit on the confrontational culture of southerners being a product of the transplanted clan-culture of highland-scots to appalachia (and its subsequent transmission to even those not of scot genetic extract, but to all souls living in the sunny south) and that in turn an explanation for higher homicide rates (though, having lived there, i think it could as easily be the weather - i was so hot and depressed the whole time i lived there i could gladly have killed damn near anybody at any time ) sure, cultural factors play in - black folk have a natural hostility to authority, but that's hardly an irrational response at the cultural level, nor unsurmountable for black individuals or communities, which still value organization and authority in many, many ways - white folks of course also have plenty of history of such complex attitudes (the scots being an excellent example - so anti-english rule yet prone to developing extreme religious orthodoxy as in the fucking calvinists) all that said, economics is still probably primarily the main element determining cop interactions - i fight like shit w/ the stupid fuckign cops i interact with, but those are only during my leisure hours out at beacon rock, which sadly are quite rare - most of the day i'm too busy working to have to contend w/ cops - if unemployment is rampant in your community though, or if the economic reality of your community is such that much of your work lies in the realm of the black-market (clearly the case in many of these incidents), of course you're going to have more interactions w/ the well-armed-Man

4 years to the next test flight? - jesus, god knows i love the dream but what a half-hearted hand-job - why not pump the program up to apollo levels of funding (shit, in an age where anger-riots seem as in the offing as they once were in the 60s, mayhap the space program could again offer reprieve to those pent up passions?)

since when did both sides (and the middle) NOT love a media trial? the phenomenon is as old as mass media itself - leopold and loeb? mccarthy hearings? oj? jesus' crucifixion? it makes little sense to criticize folks for assuming the truth of a current event b/c it fits their world view - that's like, ya know, how the animal brain works, no? i hold myself out as an example in this situation, but as an example too of how that instinct doens't have to be bad: i knew the house and the culture from direct experience - i couldn't be surprised at the initial story because it DID fit my direct contact w/ those things - but i didn't fling poo directly at anyone invovled b/c this SPECIFIC incident was one that i couldn't have such direct knowledge of. again, like the fergouson thing, the validity of the specific incident is not necessarily relevant to the underlying truth of the general reality: uva (and colleges in general) ARE places were sad shit like rape occurs, largely b/c the culture there is one that favors getting wasted and doing stupid shit

my favorite (easter) party at uva - the paper mache skin n' the burgundy stigmata were the icing on the cake

did we? i just wanted to make the snarky comment that my school was founded by a rapist so it shouldn't be so shocking if his students turned out that way too i certainly hope the fellers in that house didn't do what RS has now said they think they didn't - my point was that, at least when i was there, that house and the handful around it were in fact peopled by raging assholes which wouldn't have suprised me at all if they'd in fact done something so evil - the cotton-ball story i related above i saw w/ my own eyes, so i at least have confidence in that

they watch their movies, what more can ye ask? the wifey got herself a smart-phone the other day - i cackled me ass of when i asked her suri about the hal-9000

deep nerd shit that - been watching the original series w/ my kidz lately and ain't got to that that'un yet - "the doomsday machine" was quite the hit though

if history has any lesson, it's that any loser n' asshole can get elected - i see little difference between the tw you miss my point anyhow - you can't indoctrinate apathy - have you even tried outside these hallowed halls? it's a cruel age for accruing the clueless to a cause

you have a high opinion of indoctrination - i could screech at my kids everyday to smoke crack and worship satan and i bet at least 50% would join convents soon thereafter... loved it when i submited my papers to bring don benton into my senior gov class last year - my admin was adamant: "he's a raging republican asshole" - "yeah, i know, ain't it great?"

if steve hawkings is right, we have nothign to worry about - the a.i. engines soon to be attached to the darpa fucking killer cheetah robot chassis will settle all our law enforcement exegeses soon enough

the 8th degree of the spanish inquistion?

old avatars never die, they just faaaaaaaaade away

you know full well those things are far more driven by economic conditions than policing reform, but then the point of such reform is to reduce the # of folks cops kill unnecessarily, not to make crime itself go away.

at any rate, that ain't the point - black n' white folk both DO like them some dope, the difference is blackey gets his balls put to the bandsaw far more frequently when The Man comes around.

jesus, your location says you're from oregon! i can count on one hand the # of oregonians i know who DON'T smoke weed, and if a grenade were to blow up in said hand, i'd still probably have enough fingers to touch off the tally

sorry my vintage stuff can't quite compete, but this was a fun one from this past spring - an old skewl spade-pin w/ original hardware-store-cord tie off loop still attached on the alpeanjaeger route on st peters dome - the powderhund w/ the shit-eatiing-grin 'cuz said pin, which i'd aided mightily on for a good long while w/ a scary meat-grinder fall if it'd blown, had rocketed out w/ the slightest touch when he jugged up on tension

downright hi-larious - came round the corner of the lot to that sight and was immediately ready to get into a pissing match in the middle of that huge wind, but instead not a soul to see - figured whichever one it was either was in the pisser or skirting the base to play Big Larry so hopped in the car w/ my pack still on and made turn-turn-turns

holy shit, you musta been to beacon rock lately!

how many moderators were in fact nodders?

The burden of being such a hero must be overwhelming, how do you do it? the only heroes in this world are in the comic books, boy-o, but that don't mean a feller can't help a little old lady across the street

did the black feller just choked to death by the cops for selling untaxed cigs deserve his death too, thus the new york grand jury decision? shit, simple economics right? you try to sell something for 2$ a piece that really only costs 2 cents, aren't you asking for the black market (pardon the pun) to get involved?