I’m reading a Jim Harrison book, which is mostly about food, and he’s talking about his time cooking in a women’s prison. I came across this line:
“Drug use in state and federal prisons runs consistently over 80 percent and it’s puzzling how governments expect to control drug use in the free world when they can’t do so in their prisons.”
He makes a good point. Prohibition has NEVER worked. The government doesn’t care if people do drugs. Prison is simply a means to control a population.
I’m working on a concept and I can’t decide if it’s two essays or one. It’s about sport fandom.
In one story, it’s how sports gambling is entirely predatory and destroying both sports and the lives of young men.
In the other story, it’s about how group dynamics and social identity theory, explain devotion to a team, and how that phenomenon extends to political division and social tribalism.
I suspect it’s two stories, but there’s a lot of overlap that I don’t want to write twice.
#Writing
The thing about kids is, I don’t really care for them. They’re fine one-on-one, and I’m quite fond of all my grandchildren, but when you get several of them together, they lose their minds and become little more than feral banshees. They like to repeat sounds and words, over and over, like psychotic Buddhist monks on a meth-infused bender. It’s exhausting and pushes my addled brain to the limits of human composure.
#Christmas #Essay #Writing #Grinch
https://medium.com/ellemeno/maybe-the-grinch-wasnt-all-that-wrong-244b237cec3a
“Despite the fact that the founders were not thinking about anyone but themselves — land-owning white men — the rest of the people in the colonies heard those words spoken, and were awakened to the possibility that they, too, might be included in this declaration. Not just rights, mind you, but God-given, inalienable rights. This was a radical idea that consumed a people, that became a nation.”
#USPol #Politics #Democracy #America
I’ve begun to resent all medical professionals and the exhorbitant cost of healthcare. Doctors, dentists, whatever. The entire industry is fraudulent and overpriced. I’m really quite angry about it.
There is nothing like walking outside in the cold, then showering and putting on warm, dry clothes to make you feel alive and joyful.
If only I didn’t have a dentist appointment at 3:30pm.
Fuck me.
I’m currently on an 8-day streak of walking at least two miles a day. I use an app, or I wouldn’t even know. It helps to keep you motivated, although I don’t get too worked up when I miss a day or two. I just try to get out there and do it. It takes less than 35 minutes, but I have to dress for it and just do it. It’s good for my head.
#Walking #Exercise
