Many scientific studies, including a Surgeon General’s report, show that needle exchange does not increase drug use when conducted with referrals to both drug treatment and HIV and Hepatitis C testing, medical care and support services. Has the drug war and criminalizing drug addiction helped to reduce heroin use?…

1. The death penalty does not work as a disincentive. No one is proposing that these men should be released into society.

compounded with fear that a new supply won’t be readily available

Haha. Spatula Mousepad.

Don’t be so hard on yourself.

He could name his kid Spatula Mousepad and I’d be like, “I’ll allow it.”

A few years before he died, my uncle visited the same city I was in for college, and he and I had a sparring session about the Iraq War. Now, just to provide you with context, my uncle was a career military man who had gone through OTC as part of his college education. He was one of the first generation of officers to…

Bombdrops on Muslims
And brown people dying
Bright Asian doctors prevented from flying
Lobbyists governing through attached strings
These are a few of my favorite things

A lifetime of having to be twice as competent to be seen as half as capable fucking wears on you, man. Dudes don’t understand this because ragging on each other is part of how they related to each other. They get the benefit of the doubt though. The dynamics are different for ladies, especially to some rando watching…

Fuuuuuck this dad. Playing in to stereotypes to embarrass your kids on the internet is shitty. That will be there forever.

looking for free money

It’s not an either/or situation. You can, and should, have a problem with both.

these are my good puppies

The value of this attack will also be debated for some time. Targeting one airfield in Syria will not make that much of a difference. Even if the number of Syrian aircraft destroyed had been significant, the difference to the conflict will be minimal. At this point in the conflict, 59 Tomahawks are nothing more than a…

It was interesting to see the anchors on the Today Show this morning talking to Tom Brokaw and Nicole Wallace, and all of them saying some variation of, “this President was praising Assad just weeks ago. It would appear he’s a product of the last person he spoke to.” And one of them noted, nobody at the White House…

Watching Rachel fucking Maddow, of all people, applaud the airstrikes last night was fucking appalling.

I’d imagine Westbrook would have a special fighting outfit that looks similar to this.