Since prison has an upside-down moral code, being afraid of the consequences of doing drugs makes one a punk, while handling your drug use is manly. However, overdoing is looked down on as well. It's a thin line. The closest to a 'straight edge' sub-culture are the religious people…. I was honest and refused free…

I'm all for enjoying what you earned. But something I get sickened by the excess of the rich. Just... ugh fuck em.

Imagine your most interminable way in an emergency room or doctor's office or at the DMV. 4 hours can feel like eternity, even with things to do. Now imagine that's the rest of your life. I imagine desperation sets in fairly quickly.

So you CAN get high off fermented shit? Wow, the desperation involved with sitting around one day and thinking "I wonder if I can get high off fecal matter" is insane.

I worked in a prison for three years and can confirm there was regular talk of huffing fermented shit to get high (specifically to get high and escape the regular drug tests, the failure of which earned an inmate the Amarillo letter of a yellow jumpsuit and segregation).

I love these posts too. I think Genis has a talent for communicating all of the little things that you would never know about lockup unless you've been there. Informative and funny and does a good job of humanizing the experience. And how many of us knew what a "Fifi" was until the post about sex in prison? If the…

And in still other news, there is a Gawker Media blog about trucks...

I wonder what kind of fucking hilljack sees that picture and their immediate thought is that a plumbing company in Texas must be supplying terrorists. The thought process that has to go through their mind to not only make the least logical conclusion but then act upon it is frightening.