And there is no way treating pot as a safe, non-lethal panacea to solve all problems from depression to chronic pain will come back to bite us in the ass.

Check out Jamey Johnson. He’s part of the outlaw country along the lines of merle haggard, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash.

Does Sturgill Simpson count as a mainstream artist? He’s not on country radio but he has a nomination for Album of the Year at the Grammys.

Granted I don’t listen to much new country music anymore because of these bro country douchebags, but of the current male artists, the only mainstream one that I can think of who makes good music is Chris Stapleton. I think Parachute is ridiculously catchy. Am I missing anyone?

Me.

I don’t know what vexes me more...the gender politics of these songs, or the way their singers assume this phony working class guise singing about pickup trucks and Georgia mud when you know they all split time between their gated McMansions in Nashville, and their penthouses in LA. They’re the music industry’s…

IT’S LIKE RAAAIIIIIIINNNN

If you watch the PBS series “The National Parks: America’s best Idea”, they talk about the rush to create parks and monuments to protect places so that the buildup wouldn’t happen. Specifically, they forced the Grand Canyon to be designated so that it wouldn’t turn into another “Niagara Falls”. There is a clip at…

They probably can’t be. Orcas live in family groups - pods.

Thank goodness they are phasing out the orca shows slowly over the course of a few years! I would hate to see the terrible ramifications of ending orca shows too quickly. I mean, it is essential that we get rid of the ACA immediately without any alternative healthcare system in place. Those sorts of things just…

There probably will be, now. They’ve been so focused on who/what is *on* the plane for so long, that they’ve left big, glaring holes in other areas.

hundreds of people are currently being evacuated on the airport’s runway.

I don’t know. The Gulf coast is pretty dam spectacular.

Har har 5 people died.

I’ve always wondered why there is absolutely zero security around baggage claim areas. You would think airports would post guards to prevent luggage theft, at the very least.

It is a great source for literature. Carl Hiaasen and Pete Dexter have mined it well.

A bunch of the athletes I follow on instagram have been pushing the Renaissance Periodization system, and I was curious so I read their book. It’s a huge amount of diet micromanagement, and I’m not convinced I’m dedicated enough to do all the meal prep that would be involved, but the fact that it’s performance based…

Voting without any knowledge or details of what you are voting for is the American Way.

This is what I wish so many women would understand. Especially Trump-supporting women. No matter if you do everything ‘right,’ they can and will still turn on you. And at some point, you will disagree with them.

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