Hate is often just a reflection of insecurities and a product of attempting to alleviate cognitive dissonance. Someone feels scared, doesn’t like feeling that way, and so converts their fear into anger – misdirected at someone else.

I think of it like juggling. If you lose focus, all the balls drop.

John Huffman, the chemist who originally developed the synthetic cannabinoids later found in K2/Spice, has repeatedly warned that these compounds were never meant for recreational use.

It’s an old story: be careful what you wish for—and to whom:

• King Midas (8th century BCE)
• One Thousand and One Nights (13th century)
• Doctor Faustus (1592)
• The Monkey’s Paw (1902)
• Robert Johnson (1938)

They aren’t asking for permission. They are asking for attention.

The fact that capitalism taints everything it touches is not a criticism of the things it touches.

I switched to an internet pharmacy that mails my prescriptions, and there is no going back.

Reminds me of a funny story I heard Tom Petty once tell. Apparently, he had a buddy with a POS car with a crappy stereo, and Tom insisted that all his records had to be mixed and mastered not so that they sound great on the studio’s million dollar equipment but in his friend’s car.