I hope it was in haiku form.

I know Darcy, I made a documentary about her. Trust me, she’s not a person who’s motivated by money. She really is a kind of magical child.

my family had (i don’t know where they are now) braided “broaches” of dead people’s hair. Women wore the mementos.

Mean to them? Like getting “audited”/interrogated? Being isolated from family? Being blackmailed? That sure is mean.

Yes, that is the point. He is crazy, gets mad easily and they cannot be direct with him.

Yeah, the assistants are the batshit ones. Not Tom. I like how you “think”.

Yes, but you’re asking someone to use financial logic who is literally unable to do so. You’re actually asking for an impossible thing. And mental care is incredibly hard to access in the United States, and is extremely costly, as are medications, and it takes a lot of hard work and effort to get medications right. It…

The cookie story is the polar opposite of a juicy gossip story. Like, you couldn’t find a more lame-ass story about a celebrity if you tried.

You need to find Jesus or Buddha or Yahweh or something man because you’re as cold as ice.

Well, I am paying for an alcoholics cirrhosis or addiction treatment. I am paying for a smoker’s lung cancer treatments or addiction therapy. I am fine paying, partially, for a heroin addict’s attempt at successful rehabilitation. Better than a revolving door into the prison system with little help.

Same.

Yes, thank you. Also, yes, people “choose” to use drugs. But people choose to do lots of stuff that hurts them deeply and we understand and should be willing to help because people are people and life is complicated.

I have also dealt with family members with extreme addiction, so I understand the painful place you’re speaking from, but in the end, I think it’s much more complicated. Should they be held accountable and accept responsibility? Yes. After becoming sober I think it’s necessary to understand and accept some people will…

There’s this whole “quality of mercy” thing we kinda need to have as a functioning society. I’d look into that.

is heroine causing more death and suffering than tobacco and alcool? Yet, as a society, we tolerate those poisons and tax them. Prohibition sounds good and appease our conscious, but it never ever works. We just create more misery. I say let’s be adult about this and legalize all drugs.

They are not legalizing it, they are decriminalizing it. Which means addicts who are caught with it won’t fear jail time, which means that the focus can be more on health and rehab as opposed to imprisoning them.

Being a firefighter is a naturally giving profession where you want to help people. Being a cop is a license to bully and act above the law. Sure, there are some good cops, but they protect the bad cops, which makes them part of the problem.

it’s true—my uncle has been a fireman for almost 30 years and he’s awesome, so kind and selfless and a great dad.

A couple of teams of cops play in the rec ice hockey leagues here. Everyone hates playing the cop teams. Bunch of assholes who take cheap shots and whine like small children when they get a penalty.

Imagine that! People attracted to positions where they have the ultimate power over others turning out to have issues with abuse of same.