Being a westerner, and being a geek, you probably wouldn't be toting any protection beyond a cellphone. That places you in a very precarious position. You'd be a prime target for kidnapping and easy meat for a drive-by or casual sniping.

You wouldn't really be safe outside of a compound, and possibly not even there. I spent most of 40 years in combat zones. It's a damned hard place to live if you aren't armed and don't have team mates to cover your ass. IMHO, people who like "daily excitement" don't generally need to worry about having piles of money for later. Mainly because they don't get a "later," just dead.

people have been skinned.

Our particular form of government is past it's prime and is too big to work as it stands. The American government was designed to support the needs of widely-spread agrarian society with little or no access to news and discussions of current issues, but were fortunate to have personal trust in the people elected as representatives.

All of those conditions disappeared long ago. All we have left now is a corrupt collection of power-hungry gits.

• The 2008 Obama Campaign (Change slogan)
• Phil Fotot (Handjob Hussein, the Jerkoff King)
• The Who (Won't Get Fooled Again)

I mean, he's been jacking us off for a few years now. He should be compensated.

Well, said.

The largest difference, now, being that those doing the uprising already have decent training courtesy of Uncle Sam. Have you ever wondered how many SF veterans there are?

Plenty ;-)

Marijuana is addictive in the same manner as is enjoying a scone with your tea every morning. Once you are accustomed to that scone, if it's taken away you experience an annoyance that slightly disrupts your mental well being. How disruptive is not having that joint after work? Not enough to measure. Physical addiction? LOL. There is none. Even government studies have refuted that theory.

As for the rest of the letter's statements, well, charitably, it was well written. It was all lies and 1930's-style FUD (a la "Reefer Madness").

It is in Obama's best interest to lie his way out of having any serious discussion on the legalization issue because he knows that he'll have his ass handed to him in a debate on the subject. He has no ammunition and no way to find any because it doesn't exist unless he has it manufactured.

Perhaps Michelle or one of his kids will be stricken with Multiple Sclerosis. It would be a very Dickens-esque ending.

They're behind seven proxies. The Zetas are phucked.

I see that I was mistaken. I started at the librarian tab and went to subscriptions.

Thanks for calling this to my attention. I've always wanted to be able to read some of the early natural philosophy journals.

The subscription prices place this material well out of reach of anyone but college libraries or those who are wealthy.

Way to go, Royal Society. Spur interest, inspire the young. Yeah, that's it, hook them on science. Ha!

You sodding gits.

The Royal Society has been publishing since 1655. They published papers from the earliest sorts of scientific discovery and exploration.

I don't mind that they'll cough up my "real" name so much. Just as long as it isn't available to casual browsing.

Damn, he was quick.

Fixed that for you....

I'm hoping it happens soon. Kilns aren't crazy expensive. You can score used kilns for $500 or so. I haven't been able to find anything about how they pump hydrogen into the kiln without blowing up, so I haven't tried it yet. BUt I"m still looking :-)