Category: New Ways of Thinking
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Each & Every One Of Us Is Making It Up As We Go Along — Every Day; Why Not Own It?
I’ve told this story here before. Three days before Christmas 2016, I came within inches of bullshitting myself to death. That’s how I thought of it not long afterward — after driving straight to my doctor’s office and pretty much demanding that he write me a prescription for the mood stabilizer I had researched and…
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Cannabis + Creativity = Productivity
The first time a budtender told me that sativas would give me mental energy, I looked at him like a dog asking a question. Say what? What does that even mean — “mental energy”? If you’ve never experienced cannabis — or only ever experienced indicas (which make up the overwhelming majority of cannabis strains) —…
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America’s News Media Failed America The Same Way Their Imaginations Failed Them
Failure of imagination is a very real thing. We’re living in its shadow so it must be real. Remember the fable about the ant and the grasshopper? The Grasshopper’s happy because there’s food aplenty right now so why not hang out? Why work like the Ant is — gathering food for the winter? The Grasshopper’s…
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“Conservative Thinking” Is An Oxymoron
What’s in a name? Everything. I’m a Progressive. I prefer the term “Progressive” because it’s more descriptive than “liberal” which (being less descriptive) can be twisted around to mean even its opposite. As a “Progressive”, my political philosophy is all about progress and progressing into the future. Conservatives, by the same token, want to CONSERVE…
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Yesterday’s Twist – Trump’s Deutsche Bank Loan Docs Were All Co-Signed By Russians – Makes a “President Pelosi” entirely possible.
A lot of us have eaten through our stomach linings waiting for Nancy Pelosi to come onboard with impeachment. On the one hand, how many times does Donald Trump have to violate his oath of office to warrant being held accountable for it? On the other, this is virgin territory: a traitor president beholden to…
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Dear America — It Doesn’t Matter Whether We Know It Or Not — WE’RE AT WAR
We all know the story of December 7, 1941. At around 7:15 a.m. the Japanese Imperial Fleet attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Just like that — America was “at war”. But, the Japanese had set their war machine in motion years before — designing it for just such a scenario. In…
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Bullshit In History — It’s Only “A War On Drugs” If You’re Not White
There never ever was a “war on drugs” in America. There was however a war on drug USERS. Still is. But let’s be clear — no one ever waged that war because they worried about anyone’s health or any impact drugs might be having on it. The “War On Drugs” launched by Richard Nixon in…
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People Who Believe In Magic Can Never Be Trusted — Because They Believe In Magic
You’re lying on a gurney, about to be wheeled into emergency surgery. The surgeon appears — big smile on his face — just before they put you under. “Nothing to worry about,” he says (a little too loudly), “You’re gonna be fine — I just know it! I prayed as hard as I could and…
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Today’s Cannabis Work Cocktail Is…
Every now and then I like to share a particularly good cannabis experience. One of the great revelations of my life was that cannabis makes me work more productively. It focuses my very hypomanic mind without dulling it. My go-to daytime strain is Durban Poison. It delivers a steady, even focus that comes on quickly…
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The Hardest Part Of Cannabis Legalization Is Overcoming The Mountain Of Bullshit & Lies
Poor cannabis. There’s bad press and then there’s the hatchet job that America’s first drug czar, Harry Anslinger, did to it. When Anslinger first got hired in 1930, marijuana was hardly on his radar. Few Americans knew what it was. Fewer still smoked it (though many Americans benefited from its presence in various medicines). The…