- A new study published by Limey scientist-types suggests that alcohol is more dangerous and destructive than heroin! Ha ha, so next time you are drinking alone in your room and mutter “at least I don’t inject opiates between my toes or in my eyeballs,” an Englishman will parachute through your window and then explain — using science — how you are a hopeless wreck. The study ranked each substance for “harms including mental and physical damage, addiction, crime and costs to the economy and communities.” So yeah, that’s booze, alright! The study also found that Magical Mushrooms are not very destructive/husbands who gobble them up usually do not beat their wives. Ergo, you should eat those poop-shrooms by the bushel. [BBC]
- Brazil has elected Dilma Rousseff as its first female president. Dilma was a left-wing guerrilla fighter during the 1960s. So she joined the Vietcong, instead of the National Guard? That is even worse than draft dodging! Anyway: Hooray for Brazil! [CNN]
- Murkowski’s sore loser write-in candidacy could very well give McAdams a surprise victory, according to people who speculate about these sorts of things. But other clueless political anal-ists totally disagree. Interesting! [The Caucus]
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I'm actually the world's first combined political analyst and political therapist.
It wasn't the pronunciation that bothered me.
"he was just analraping me"
Please explain Michele Bachmann then.
BTW I just realized via typo that "explain" is an anagram of "ex-palin". Yay?
"Sarah Palin" is an anagram of "rash in a lap."
Also.
Not only an anagram, but a synonym.
So the real reason Christine O'Donnell doesn't masturbate is because she has a Sarah Palin?
I've been looking for a good political analrapist.
Should be plenty to choose from tomorrow.
Riley, thanks for posting that photo from the Wonkette Halloween party!
The fact that she can drink from that pitcher & not topple over on the pot IS impressive.
I do not argue with science, unlike the reich-tarts who've been coming around here.
So it's psilocybin time!
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psilocybinge time
Allllllll right!
mushrooms contain vita-mins.
'Tis the Liberty Cap season in the NW. So guess having Liberty Caps with your vegan burger is healthy in addition to being patriotic.
Sure, why not? I didn't have anything else planned for the next 8 – 10 hours.
Psilocybin – putting the FUN back in fungus.
I'm sure DARE will be completely overhauled this week, seeing as how science-based it is.
Drugs Are Really Excellent (?)
Drugs Are Really Expensive.
"The Drugs are too DAMN HIGH!!!"
Join the Drugs Are Too Damn High party. And what a party it is!
Maybe they'll realize that severely exaggerating the effects of mild drugs only serves to make teens who take them realize the whole thing was a lie, and then assume that must mean things like cocaine and heroin can't be that bad either and should be safe to take; and that their whole bullshit spiel ultimately encourages kids to take drugs.
Or not.
The Police Liaison/DARE Officer at my high-school was the most frequent user of illicit/controlled substances on campus.
Sure, he was using steroids, but, whatever…
I'm glad to see that Wonkette is covering the Alaska race for the New York Times. Headline "Alaska Three-Way is Surprise Hope for Democrats" http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/ala...
I would be hard pushed to find two Alaskans with whom I would want to do the sex act.
Think of all the hard pushing, though.
Let's see, though she can be annoying and pretentious Jewell still looks pretty good; and um, there was one girl I knew in college who was actually from Alaska and she was fairly cute, at least back then… and uh, no that's all I can think of; a lot the ladies and gay men around here seem to think Levi's attractive, but I can't think of anyone else for you either.
Limeylizzie, it's hard to chose just two (at a time.)
JMPEsq, I'm still cute.
I know two hot greek sisters from alaska.
I am sure there are plenty, a little crazy, and a lot easy.
Mush! Mush!
Are you suggesting it would come down to me and 2 huskies?
I guess one could always go native. Warming up under a toasty caribou comforter might be nice, if you're Inuit.
The odds are good, but the goods are odd up there.
Yeah, I just don't think of Joe the Miller or Lisa Mer-Cow-Ski in that way. So anyway, no threeway surprise hope for this Democrat.
And many of them are frigid.
Is this like "It's a Wonderful Life," where every time a major news outlet gives coverage to three-ways, an angel spreads her wings?
"Alaskan Three-Way" = band-name WIN.
So, Carlos Castaneda has been reincarnated as an English booze researcher?
A Limey Way of Knowledge.
playing clips of the president saying “Yes we can!” followed by clips of Ms. Murkowski saying the same thing. The ad ends with the words “Don’t be fooled again.”
So Miller, Murkowski, and McAdams are having a triple M three-way while Miller plagiarizes Pete Townshend in hiz ads? Who knew? Who? Go McAdams or it's…
♫ meet the new boss, same as the old boss ♫
So you're saying we might get fooled again?
It looks like this Chad…
[takes off glasses]
Should really be named David Carradine.
Well of course booze is going to seem like the most dangerous drug when you're in a country where 80% of the population are dangerous, violent alcoholics who get into a fight at the local at least once a week.
Don't forget the lobsterback-on-lobsterback stabbing epidemic…
Or what happens at both the bars and stands during soccer; er, "football"; games.
Sorry Mr Scientist guys, but if we all shroomed as much as we drank, the impact on society would be greater. My refudiation of their evidence is as follows:
1. I can drink a pint of beer and continue on with my day. If I take a dose of shrooms, my day's pretty much going to be focused on wandering through the woods with my friends, saying stupid shit over and over again as we cycle through the same conversations and paths until the shrooms wear off and we go get donuts.
2. In the 45 minutes or so it takes for shrooms to kick in, I usually need to drink a lot to quelch the rising panic that the shrooms were actually poisonous and instead of getting high I'm about to destroy my liver. Or maybe I'm just paranoid. With beer, I just get drunk and maybe a bit loud.
3. The day after drinking (now that I'm sensible enough to not overdo it every night), I can still function. The day after shrooming, I'm shaky and exhausted but can't sleep.
4. Personal anecdotes are complete shite in a sciency perspective, so let's all go shroom AND drink, in the name of science.
Dry, powder and smoke yer shrooms and belay that whining matey.
Back when I still felt brave enough to shroom, I never thought about powdering and smoking them. We usually just broke into our baggie and each grabbed a small handful to gag down whole. We thought about adding them to pizza, but nobody in our group was willing to ruin a perfectly good pizza that way. I'll have to pass down the wisdom of powdering and smoking to the children once they're ready for college. The more you know . . .
"My day's pretty much going to be focused on wandering through the woods with my friends, saying stupid shit over and over again as we cycle through the same conversations and paths until the shrooms wear off and we go get donuts. "
You've just described most of my life to date, pint of beer or not, and I've never done shrooms.
So what you're saying is…on shroom day you're gonna be busy all day.
I've only done shrooms half a dozen times, and not for ages, but still, they were easily the mellowest and happiest high I've ever had.
*sigh* So many mushrooms, so little time…
O/T, it was great fun watching Chimpy pouting behind home plate as his beloved Rangers got their ass handed to them last night. And Laura, when she yawned! That woman could swallow a small child. And probably has.
I liked how the announcers pointed out that the Queen Mother was scoring the game. My guess would have been Junior Jumble.
She was wasting her beautiful mind.
another win for "San Francisco Values."
The larger ones she runs down first.
seriously… was almost going to root for the Rangers until I saw the shrub and his gruesome mother behind the plate
Chick in pic doing "wide-stance" wrong.
The booze article in the Guardian is accompanied by a helpful photograph. And the writer refers to "magic mushrooms," for science, also.
That picture shows what Teabaggers think the voting booth is like.
You totally ignored the NYT headline about the Alaska race:
"Alaska Three-Way is Surprise Hope for Democrats"
Every Democrat I know is hoping for a "three-way."
Republicans mostly are engaged in solo efforts- Except Christine O'Donnell.
What about all those proposing whatever in public toilets?
To Riley and Wonkette Overlords: Thank you for only having one (US midterm) election story this morning, and it a possibly positive one. To our Dear Zombie Jeebus: please let this election be over, and if the Dems don't get hammered, please let MSM talkers imagine a non-apologetic way to explain their wrongitude, because I worry about their delicate self of steam.
Once again it is time to marvel at that cute girl's commitment to efficacy.
Cute girl needz moar hair! Christine it or stay home!!!
I went to college for the weed. I have not had such easy access to it since then.
I've recently heard from people in CA that they are considering voting against Prop 19 because they are afraid it will impose too many regulations on pot use, compared to the current medical marijuana free-for-all that apparently exists.
As someone who does not live in CA or smoke weed, I cannot confirm this. I report, you decide.
For the South Americans having such a machista culture, I count three female heads-of-state in the last decade, versus U.S. America's zero: Michele Bachelet (Chile), Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (Argentina), Dilma (Brasil). & let's not forget Violeta Chamorro (Nicaragua), back in the early 90s.
So, once pot is legal in California, will the stoners remember to legalize shrooms next?
Bah, they left caffeine off their study to protect their precious tea, the baggers.
Dunno, to me, everything was very very fine on mushrooms. One time I even thought my bf and I might be dead, but I thought it was interesting. He kept saying, "If we're dead, why'd we just buy toilet paper?"
Good times.
Pinning your hopes to Americans, especially Alaskan-Americans, correctly spelling out a candidate's name is possibly the most breathtakingly crazy strategy I've heard of.
'Lisa Murkowski' is not too far removed from 'Lizard People'.
Might we finally get the Senator we, as U.S. Americans, deserve?
So crazy it might just work!
Under the "voter intent" provision of the Elections Act, ballots =/= spelling bees: all duly registered semi-literate & illiterate bags of fuck in the US of A will get their votes counted just like everyone else. (/pedant)
In other world news, Tom DeLay goes on trial today for money-laundering.
Were the trial anywhere else in Texas, one would expect that it would be the federal prosecutor who would be convicted … of violating DeLay’s Constitutional rights under the Commerce Clause or something. But the trial is in Austin. Tough titties, Tom. So sorry.
Please Fedex them to my synagogue in Chicago ASAP.
Not sure about the mushroom thing after I saw what they did to my friends. I did some shrooms and my friends looked really weird for hours.
I didn't read the study, but did anyone look at whether alcohol does more damage/cost to the community etc simply because so many more people consume alcohol than cocaine and therefore there are more people likely to abuse it than cocaine?
In other words, NO DON'T TAKE AWAY MY BOOZE!!!!
"Now ya know why ah quit. Ahen, ahen…" -W.
Hitler didn't drink, and that Bush moron quit. Therefore, I will continue to drink.
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