Cocaine still seems to be the drug of choice in NYC, rather than meth.

Cocaine still seems to be the drug of choice in NYC, rather than meth.

So what kind of gun do they give out there to help with the problem?

Yeah, I think meth is still mostly a problem in the gay community in NYC, rather than being more widespread. And we don't believe in guns here!!

Hi from New Jersey!! I got in yesterday afternoon--so much for the idea of driving from Chicago in one day. I didn't leave my place until 9:40 on Sunday morning; ended up spending the night in a Super 8 hotel room east of Pittsburgh. Too many state troopers on the turnpikes in Ohio on Sunday and Pennsylvania on Monday to put the petal to the metal, so I kept the cruise control within five miles of the speed limit.

My mom and I are being lazy this morning, and might get ambitious enough to start cleaning out her garage today and tomorrow. Possibly. My niece and nephews will be home in a few days (niece is on a band trip to Europe, nephews are with their mom in CA), so I'll be able to see them by this weekend.

Brother's divorce will probably be final next week, so I'm here for him if he wants to vent. He did have a big date this weekend--good for him!

And we don't believe in guns here!!

Oh, that's why y'all hate America.

Oh, that's why y'all hate America.

It's not so much that we hate America, it's just that we don't live there.

Rural Georgia has a meth problem (I just Googled and saw that 70% of Child Services cases now involve meth). We also got plenty of guns, y'all.

It's not so much that we hate America, it's just that we don't live there.

Not living in America and hating America is the same thing. No wait, I forgot we aren't the in Bush era anymore. Never mind.

I think it's hard for Meth to get hold in NYC because it's hard to be making it here, right? Meth labs kinda require isolation, thus the large problem in rural/rural adjacent areas.

A cautionary tale: How NOT to raise an ape in your family

I collect books by people who have raised apes in their homes. One of the first, The Ape and the Child, was written in by behaviorist W.N. Kellogg, a man with a peculiar brainstorm: that he should raise a chimpanzee as a twin to his own infant son, treating them in exactly the same fashion, and comparing their development. Kellogg was fascinated by case studies of feral children: if kids raised by wolves become wolf-like, he hypothesized, could a human such as he mold an ape to act human?

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Results? Mixed. The chimp, Gua, took more quickly to her civilizing education than her brother. She appeared smarter, stronger, and more emotionally developed on a number of counts: she was better at using glasses and silverware, walked earlier (chimps generally don't walk upright), responded to verbal commands sooner, and was more cooperative and obedient.

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The real reason he abruptly halted the study, then, was likely because of results that Kellogg never anticipated: his son Donald started imitating the chimp.

For example, though Donald had learned to walk before Gua joined the Kellogg family, he regressed and started crawling more, in tune with Gua. He'd bite people, fetch small objects with his mouth, and chewed up a shoe. More importantly, his language skills were delayed. At 19 months, Donald's vocabulary consisted of three words. Instead of talking he would grunt and make chimp sounds.

Gua got sent back to the Yerkes center in Florida, where she promptly died. And Donald? Not much is known of his life, but, at 43, he committed suicide.