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If me being a born-again Christian is going to interfere with your enjoyment of my work here, we might be on short-time together. I am finding more in the Christian faith on the topic of legal and illegal drug use for pain than I thought likely, and I think I am just gonna give this weblog over to that realm. Half my entries here have been “hold on something’s coming” so don’t expect any regular reader here to buy even one word of this, but I think we are there. I am gonna work on the first stuff of that kind over the weekend. If the work is as good as the outline, it should go up relatively soon. When it does, that will sort of act as the starter pistol for the race we are joining. I don’t think anything for me, from here on out, will ever really be totally secular. I get why non-believers wouldn’t sign up for all of that (I didn’t go our of my way to read Christian stuff when I was in unbelief – that’s for sure), but I would ask you give me a chance…yes, I want you to convert to Bible-believing Christianity, and I may even ask you nicely to do so, but you will not find me as one-dimensional as is usually the fear. I live in the same world you do. I am not an ascetic, and never intend to be one. I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t think it worked. It is on me – and my ability to generate results for Christ – that will dictate whether this succeeds. I only succeed if I reach people. I won’t reach people with condemnation, so I don’t intend to bring any to the party! All of this is easy to say of course. It simply remains for me to do and you to decide. Let’s see what happens! Til then, here is more of “what happens” in the worldly world. It may not edify. It may not satisfy. But, it does get the product out the door on time, so here goes:

• The DEA gets its ass handed to it every single day. When they fight drugs – they lose; so instead they fight poor people, and they “win”. Pretty simple stuff
• Cool. Now let’s do this here.
• Everyone knows.
• This is done to make drug warriors feel better about themselves. This is how they are walking it all back so they don’t get held accountable. That won’t work.
• IA State gets one right.
• Every city I have ever visited creates a connection for me such that I hurt when I see them hurting. I loved visiting London the handful of times I did, and the idea that a new mutation can jump in like this and rough them up really sucks. Thoughts and prayers raise a smirk these days, but I believe in them and intend them for all suffering there. I definitely need to also figure out how exactly to get the same level of concern going for places I have never seen!
• International institutions exist only to maintain the integrity of borders. Daniel Goldhagen was right.
• Consent, schmonsent.
• The right-wing mob and the left wing mob deserve each other; the rest of us deserve neither of them. Both sides abuse their power and discretion and do so for entirely selfish reasons. It is best no one going seeking the truth from either.
• No institution is beyond the reach of the powerful.
• STEM degrees.
• The idea that rogue organizations run the black market for drugs is laughable.
• These people will face God.
• The good news is that most of the drug debt is also student loan debt and the kiddies will be paying usury on bad ditch weed for 30 years. These are the people we considered smart enough to give an advanced education!
• The DEA lost the drug war without ever losing a battle. We might as well just pay tribute directly to the cartels ourselves and eliminate the middlemen at the DEA.
• I refuse to believe anything bad about Canada.
• When you let humans decide who is a human being and who is not a human being, pain is sure to follow.
• I know almost nothing about Hillsong, but the energy off of the people they cover from that church have energy on them that make the recent news about Hillsong not seem very mysterious.
• If you mix it up you will also keep it up.
• All of our prisons are inhumane and it is time for a mass amnesty. – not just this one.
• They lie to you because it is effective. If you lie to them, they will try to put you in a cage.
• These are the things you are supposed to discuss BEFORE making policy decisions.
• Medical consent really isn’t all that thorny.
• When this era passes, we really need to try to help each other readjust together in a healthy way. 2020 has been unhealthy.
• The contortions people are willing to go to in avoidance of plain speaking is pretty incredible.
• Big lessons from 2020 apparently are that cigs prevent COVID and porn prevents serial killers.
• D Party Leadership.
• More people dying of OD’s in San Francisco than of COVID. No one cares.
• We pay them to gas us.