How? How do you have that as your introduction to a broadcasted piece of material and turn it off? Millions of people were rapt watching that, how do you not want to get some insight into the how and why? This is why trump won, man

I imagine you've had some practice

The problem is that it does, now. I grew up in the middle of "teach the controversy," and the fallout from that has been pretty obvious. Facts are opinions and opinions are facts, you can't have an involved talk about science in public without inviting some morons. It's only getting worse.

I wonder if it doesn't turn into a sunk costs thing after a while. Like you spent all this money on stupid hats, you spent so many hours saying how great this was going to be, that you can't really countenance going back.

That's what just baffles me. It's not exactly a secret that this guy isn't draining any swamps, but people are just intentionally ignoring that.

You're not "men," you're one sad boy.

You vastly overestimate how much people care what you think.

Oh the dude that got a D in something called "Meat" while he was in college? The one that campaigned to shut down the department of energy, got the job, and then learned that the DoE was in charge of nukes and had to make a public show of contrition about his public stupidity? The guy that's currently learning that…

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Dating sites don't sell dating, they sell hope and something to be frustrated with, which is a weirdly popular combination. It's not unlike when dudes who aren't mechanics buy project cars, or community college. It comes with the idea of a beautiful new life, but what the actual product is is something you fuss and…

On an individual basis, I completely agree with you. Coke ruins lives. The problem is that our current setup ruins lives in a very permanent, very real way all at once, where coke tends to be a little more gradual. Some nineteen year old dumbass flipping some bags is not going to have a better chance at success…

Neither is booze, and we have that for sure. Also I could walk two blocks and end up with a bag of coke if I wanted to, so it seems to me like prohibition isn't doing a lot. We might as well greenhouse it out and make some jobs and collect some taxes instead of letting paramilitary death squads eat our lunch. 25%…

I'm of two minds. I really hate cocaine people for reasons that really don't need to be explained, they're dreadful. It's a bad drug that frequently does bad things to good people. At the same time, I'm extremely interested in the idea of a "fair trade" cocaine, where it's made by Americans in big complicated grows…

Any of those is fine. Chasing adults around for smoking pot is a dumb waste of time that puts a lot of money in a lot of the wrong pockets. The cops have better shit to do, as does the media.

I'd estimate it at about a quarter in Portland, higher if we count by groups of people instead of individuals. I do not remember the last time I heard "anybody got any weed" answered in anything but an enthusiastic affirmative.

That made me feel like I had a stomach ache and then also a second, different stomach ache at the same time.

I smoke hash oil out of a little pen like he had, several times every day. Usually in public, because it's small and discrete and doesn't throw up a huge cloud of distinctive smelling smoke and I like to not be a bother (and not advertise that I have drugs more than I have to). I did what he was arrested for a…

Danzig doesn't, at the very least. Real metal is surprisingly workmanlike most of the time. The other day I went and saw a four band bill where the headliner is a one man band that electrical engineered up this huge elaborate system by himself. Think Reggie Watts but a pissed off white dude, real fancy, look up…

And simultaneously it could not be whiter

Here's a fun joke you can tell to punks. Say "what's this?" Put both your arms up above your shoulders as though you were holding a dowel level a little above your eyes, and then push the dowel with some effort for several long steps.