So, did you take your screen name from this reference? If so, nice.

It's easy to think of daydreaming as mental masturbation, and to feel that mental discipline involves a rigid focus on moment-to-moment reality, as opposed to wallowing in fantasy. Also, even those who tend to daydream can start to lose it, with age or with the onset of depression.

How Not To Deserve To Live On This Earth In One Easy Step

Doubt that the TV sound of the time would have conveyed that driving bass line! Good stuff.

Did somebody say Detroit? If you're gonna click it, you better turn it the fuck up.

Jeez, be a little sensitive. The guy's name is "Jack Dickey." Can't have been easy.

"If there was one coach you could play for, who would it be?"

I can't remember the ref, but I promise you this is true. A long time ago, I had a Rockets game on VHS, so when I thought I had heard it, I was able to rewind and listen with headphones, and it was easy to hear.

Exactly. There was a fear of maintaining a standing army, but a recognition of the need to pull an army together when needed. There were Indians that were going to need to be fought, is what I think the second amendment is primarily about.

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I wonder how many people here have read up on our history. No agenda on my part either way, but reading up is an enjoyable thing to do. A nice intro is this article from the Atlantic:

Very nice. YouTube is a little impoverished on some of the music I wanted to share with you, I should upload some of it my damn self, but I'm not going to. Anyway, here's a late night nog-sipper.

A little gem some folks might not have heard.