on cigarette smoking and not giving a fuck

(or how smoking changes your attitude toward behaving recklessly)

I stopped smoking cigarettes five months ago after having smoked for more than fifteen years. Since stopping I have noticed that I am less likely to engage wantonly in dangerous and ill-advised activities, that I have greater control over my thought processes, and that I am taking better care of my body generally. This may be because of my advancing age, and perhaps it is due to aging-related changes to my brain chemistry, but I believe that since conquering the slavery that is tobacco addiction I am rediscovering a love for myself lost long ago.

It is a terrible thing that the United States of America allow their people to become enslaved to tobacco, that the States profit from their people buying into a self-imposed slavery, and that they punish the people for smoking substances other than tobacco, substances such as marijuana that do not ensnare the user in addiction. It is also a terrible thing that I have lost the recklessness and lack of caring associated with destroying my body through smoking cigarettes, but in their place is growing within me a ferocious passion, a deep and precious love for myself and for my life such as I have not felt for decades. It is this love that for the first time in my life allows me to force my ADHD into submission; it is this love that inspires me to live an honorable and a virtuous life.

The shackles of addiction do not easily fall away, and those who profit from this enslavement do not care if you live or die. So buck up, smokers of America, and secure for yourselves the Blessings of Liberty by quitting smoking cigarettes.

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defend the Constitution!

The police forces of America are waging war against our Constitution. As those people sworn to the task of defending the Constitution, police officers may not at any time perform unwarranted searches or seizures. As those people dedicated to serving the community, cops must obey the Constitutional parameters at all times. If a police officer attempts to search your car, if she tries to root around in your pockets, even if she so much as asks to search any of your possessions, she is an enemy of the People and a destroyer of your legal protections.

Do not let power-hungry pigs get the upper hand – read your Constitution, and defend it from all who seek to do it harm.

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there is a power, but it is no higher than we are

petroglyphs at Puerco Pueblo

ordered chaos at Lot 1 show

  It is evening in Angelino Heights, and Lot 1 is thick with jumpy, snorting alcoholics. The third to perform after Passionweiss and Fat Tony, Amigo the Devil mounts the stage confidently, with the booze on his breath and his heart filled with a joyous rage. The crowd, already raucous and grinning with the bravo charlie, hoists upon him waves of ragged applause. A girl passes out – she is draped unceremoniously over a torn couch in the rear. Members of different and opposing urban youth organizations mingle together peacefully, each man sizing up the next, each man primed and ready to rape, pillage, and destroy. Locally brewed beers flow freely and at decent prices, the barkeep rushing to keep up. Another girl passes out, this one an attractive blond – she is carried carefully outside and placed in the Devil's tour van, where she lies, waiting, to be consumed by him later. Just as the mood inside is nearing its peak of wild-eyed, skin-clawing frenzy, Freddie Gibbs steps from the shadows spreading good cheer, his eyes flashing with visions of the Devil strumming his banjo hard. Via con diablo, amigos.

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oscar mike

touring for the next few weeks with amigo the devil. will blog tonight from Flagstaff AZ. mahalo. JP

on safety – her price

Has America shed enough foreign and native blood to avenge the lives lost during 9/11, or have our atrocities eclipsed in severity and in frequency those committed by our sworn enemies the terrorists? I believe that by abandoning the Constitutional protections at home, by imprisoning people without trial around the world, by desecrating the principles (Life, Liberty) upon which this nation was founded, we have sacrificed our honor for the fleeting truth of security. America delenda est.

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