I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.

Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'


Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


-t - Apr 14, 2005 11:37:07 am PDT #3615 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm not arguing that it's safe, or should be labelled as safe, or that the manufacturers should not be held accountable for misleading claims. I may be reading the article wrong, but it sounds to me as if the judge's decision just punted the whole thing back to the FDA for something other than an outright ban.


beekaytee - Apr 14, 2005 11:43:26 am PDT #3616 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

The president just drove by, or his dummy-cade, (oh wait, they are the same thing) my house on his way to a baseball game about 12 blocks from here.

I guess that whole Middle East peace thing, the war on terror and our exploding budget have been sorted.

Brilliant. I guess he deserves a break.

Have a hot dog for me W.


-t - Apr 14, 2005 11:45:17 am PDT #3617 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

He's throwing out the first pitch at the National's home opener. It's one of teh few things I like about the guy, he throws a decent first pitch.


Connie Neil - Apr 14, 2005 11:48:24 am PDT #3618 of 10001
brillig

he throws a decent first pitch

He missed his true calling as a baseball player, then.


Amy - Apr 14, 2005 11:52:25 am PDT #3619 of 10001
Because books.

NYC isn't big. NYC is a lot of small villages, smooshed very close together.

This is very true for me. It's my One True City. YnycMV

I'm very "legalize it all and tax it to hell" when it comes to drugs.

This is me, too. Could lead to lots of problems, I suppose, but it's not like we don't have lots of nasty problems with illegal drugs already.


erikaj - Apr 14, 2005 11:52:59 am PDT #3620 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

He already had the coke habit (ducking) You guys need to read 'The Corner"...still not quite "studies and shit" but a very effective argument about the war on drugs, written by one of my journalistic idols. (/David Simon likes carrots) It changed the way I look at that issue.


beekaytee - Apr 14, 2005 11:53:15 am PDT #3621 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

He should go play with...okay, I'll stop now.

Very scary voices wafting in the window. Apparently, all the cars on East Capitol St. (a major thoroughfare) are being towed right now. All cars must be off the road for the next 5 hours.

Paranoid much?

And perhaps I should be MORE paranoid considering I'm two blocks away.


Aims - Apr 14, 2005 11:55:22 am PDT #3622 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

This is me, too. Could lead to lots of problems, I suppose, but it's not like we don't have lots of nasty problems with illegal drugs already.

Maybe it'd cut down on gang stuff. Like Gang X sells X on these blocks. Gang Y sells X on those blocks. The Man comes in and says, "Her eya go kiddies. Get it at 7-11." Maybe no more turf wars. I don't know. Maybe it wouldn't work. But the way it is now ain't working either.


Lyra Jane - Apr 14, 2005 11:57:00 am PDT #3623 of 10001
Up with the sun

Wee Lillian is so tiny and pretty. I love BIG-EYED babies.

And I never liked Indian food until after college. (I had it, like, twice in college and got kind of freaked out by the mushiness, so i really just ate samosas.) But one day I had it and it was just perfect. I don't think of paneer as being cheese, more a soft protein ingredient, like tofu. Seen that way, it's prettty good, but I probably wouldn'y want it in a ham sandwich.


-t - Apr 14, 2005 11:58:10 am PDT #3624 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

It makes sense to me, Aimee. I'm sure it'd lead to other problems, because every solution does, but "legalize and tax" seems like the American Way. Exept for the fact that it's not, in fact, what we do.