Maybe I like to do it old-school (or I’m just old), but I find that if I write down everything using pen and paper, it helps me retain more. This led me to getting the “right” pens (Pilot G-Tec 0.4mm, if anyone was curious), but that’s another topic for another time.

This is bad. Heroin is everywhere. I am struggling to stay away from it everyday. I have overdosed, once not that long ago, and it has ruined so much of my life, and still I crave it. I wouldn't wish addiction on my worst enemy and my only hope is I gather the strength to stay away from it. I started using when I was…

I know that in my neck of the woods, some of the heroin overdoses are happening because the heroin has been cut with fentanyl, making it stronger than the users are expecting. So what is it that makes this Hollywood so lethal, then? Is it cut with a stronger drug like fentanyl?

Because the users assume it’s a better high (higher purity?). I think there’s also a death wish element.

This is why whenever I need to get some food, I just go to the supermarket and hang out by the checkout. I get to be in close proximity to people who have food, which is the same as having it, yourself.

Hell, it’s not even trickle down economics anymore. Apparently, you’re supposed to just be happy to be in the physical vicinity of that kind of money.

You know what else is important? Understanding language, rhetoric, reasoning, argument, logic, etc.

I am so sick of this bullshit prioritizing science and math over the humanities. People who can’t evaluate argument, recognize propaganda or understand history and sociology are much easier to manipulate, even if they…

John Adams: “I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain.”

small dating pool in the Dakotas.

George Will doesn’t need those guys. George Will doesn’t need anybody. George Will is a major dude. Just last weekend, George Will hooked up with this girl. She’s from Canada, you don’t know her.

I’ll bet by now Friedman has his own favorite Uber drivers he always requests so they can talk issues. Like he has one Uber driver who is really strong on the Middle East but doesn’t really know from domestic policy but that’s okay because there’s another one he can get when he’s on the Upper West Side* who is a…

Brooks and King would have to keep hollering at Friedman, “Just because it’s a mustard yellow Volvo doesn’t mean you can call me ‘a cabbie.’”

What if Peter King, David Brooks and Thomas Friedman traveled to and fro throughout America in a mustard yellow 1987 Volvo power wagon solving mysteries together?

Jesus Christ. If you bother to take the time and read the full thread it was a reply specifically to someone wondering about the odds of Mark Sailing abusing underage fans while on that Glee concert tour.

BlockBuster isn’t defending Mark Sailing and other people who view child pornography, it’s not someone playing…

Ummm no. I actually work in the forensic field as a social worker. In what way did me spreading actual research serve as this being an endorsement for this behavior. Everyday I work to make sure these people are watched, treated, and it never happens again.... but thanks for assuming the worst.

Its admirable that you see new beginnings in the date change. Sadly, I just see the same old shit show with a different date.

He’s also anti-union, so the free market works as long as those pesky workers don’t get together and freely negotiate higher wages. That’s just unfair and breaks the market. Obviously.

Because politicians control education funding and curricula.

“Wage rates ideally would be established by the demands of the labor market instead of being set by the government.”

It’s an ad for a razor.