Public Enemy

This is a screenshot from the documentary "The House I Live In".

The two certainties is that there is no democrazy with widespread drug use. I don't know what political system we have. Something close to a kindergarten class for 400 million people? And the second thing is that the criminalization of drugs doesn't affect drug use.

"What drugs haven't destroyed, the war against them has." - David Simon, Journalist, Creator of The Wire


If Nixon had doubled the federal minimum wage instead of the minimum sentence for drug possession, this would not be a problem today.

Maybe sentence a crack user to an all-expense paid semester at Duke. Is that so crazy?

But don't listen to a stoner. Trust Nixon.

To Be A Dog

The little white one hides her Milk Bones

What am I missing?

Isn't this supposed to be plural?

Years ago, against my better judgement and in a spasm of desperation and sadness I got wretchedly drunk on scorpion bowl poison, my liver fell out in the bathroom and I stuffed it back in, and it seems like the very next day I was climbing this mountain called Chocorua* wearing bell bottom jeans and a polyester shirt. I thought my heart was going to crack a rib with the thumping of a dying man. No heart defibrilators or nothing nearby. See that peak? I almost died getting there.

Joseph Knecht's Search

"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveler who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."

From The Glass Bead Game Hermann Hesse

Easy Rider

"Try this." - Captain America

Easy Rider isn't a great movie. In fact, the plot has less depth than a teenage comic strip that gets passed around in the cafeteria. Two hippies cross the South and encounter people and prejudices. There's no plot. A few flimsy statements about culture are made but it's all "Tell" and little "Show". The hippies are free to travel...and the locals are free to be leery. How can you complain? When has this not been the case? America is huge and the idea that you're going to travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans, over 2000 miles across several cultural boundaries, without some difficulties is crazy.