a must-read for the Holocaust Museum “Drug Warriors and their Prey” is a depressing read for folks who believe in American freedom. Author Richard Miller demonstrates spot-on parallels between Nazi Germany and Drug War America. In Nazi Germany, the state identified an outlaw class that could be mistreated at will…

The life and times of Brian Quass I’ve resisted creating an autobiography for my posts at Medium.com, because until now, I’ve only had 7 followers, and I couldn’t afford to piss off so much as one of them with stories of my misspent youth. However, now that I am a…

In his preface to “Reality Is Not What It Seems,” Carlo Rovelli embraces the modern triumphalist myth about science, that it is leading us irreversibly onward to greater and greater truths. “Scientific thinking,” he says, “explores and redraws the world, gradually offering us better and better images of it, teaching…

The horrible and omnipresent effects of the Drug War cry out to be pilloried onstage. And I mean that literally, as the budding playwright in me can already envision a hospice full of crying children singing the heartbreaking ballad “Make It Stop!” as their doctors, fearful of losing their jobs…

I keep getting a message from Academia.edu asking me if I am the Brian Quass who wrote “Longitudinal grooves for bluff body drag reduction.” How flattering is that! It’s so tempting to take credit for writing what sounds like a ground-breaking paper in the field — whatever field that might…

a philosophical review of “A People’s History of the United States” American authors are in denial about the War on Drugs. If anyone doubts this, they should check out the populist classic by historian Howard Zinn entitled “A People’s History of the United States.” If any book might be expected…

testimony from an expert When I see doctors praising antidepressants online, it plucks my last and final nerve. I ask myself, why, in 2023, are doctors still praising a treatment protocol from the 1970s that has turned 1 in 4 American women into wards of the healthcare state? Now, the…

in response to ‘A Talking Cure for Psychosis’ by Matthew M. Kurtz, Scientific American print edition, March 2023 Dear Professor Kurtz: When we say that drugs by themselves have not solved the problem of psychosis, I think we must specify which drugs we are talking about. As you know…

REPORTERS: Mr. Moviegoer! Mr. Moviegoer! Good afternoon. I’d like to make a few comments and then I’ll take questions. As you know, I watched the 2020 movie entitled Buoyancy last night, written and directed by Roel Leijten and starring Michael Wagner as a dot-com billionaire, a certain Nicholas Hallberg…