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Thursday, October 6, 2016

Smoke on your pipe and put this in (West Side Story reference)


Karl Marx once said: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people".

Given the decrease in people’s attendance at churches over the past 40-50 years and the epidemic level increase in the use of opioids, I am starting to wonder if the reverse could now be true, as opiates now seem to be the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions…and the new religion of the people.
Or maybe it's Donald Trump.
 
 

My Annus Horribilus (and no, that doesn't mean My Horrible Anus)

  I need to write more in this dang thing, if only to unload. This has been...I'm tempted to say one of the worst years of my life, but ...