At the risk of flattering myself, I have concluded that an American’s level of philosophical sophistication is in direct proportion to their ability to see through Drug War lies, for the Drug War is based on a variety of unspoken assumptions which do not stand up to logical scrutiny. That’s…

Speaking Truth to Power, AKA Uncle Joe Biden I tuned in last night to see Joseph Biden boring an all-too-polite crowd with incontrovertible generalities at the Summit of the Americas: The North American region is large and diverse, quoth Joe; the COVID crisis gave North America a disproportionate wallop, quoth Joe; the ensuing economic downturn ravaged economies throughout…

One reason why Drug War prohibition has lasted now over 100 years is the fact that otherwise sensible Americans have yielded to the temptation to medicalize and moralize the so-called “addiction problem,” turning it into the symptom of some existential crisis. These well-intentioned liberals fail to recognize the fact that…

The title of the Forbes article made me laugh: “Can Laughing Gas Help People with Treatment-resistant Depression?” A truly depressed person would never ask such a question. Of course it would help! Whether it would be a cure-all is another question, of course, but it would HAVE TO HELP…

Ecstasy helps humans love each other. Time to use it therapeutically on hotheads. It’s hard to end mass shootings in America, because we’re not allowed to come up with any solution that involves guns in any way. So we’re hobbled from the start. It’s like we’re being asked to solve…

Author to materialists: Are too! Materialists love to diss Earthlings. They’re constantly reminding us that we’re nothing special in the great scheme of things. “Hell, our Earth ain’t the center of no universe! Heck, even our Sun ain’t the center. In fact neither our solar system nor our…

And what it tells us about the Drug War I thought I had done my homework. I checked out the first 10 pages of Google search results on “Ketamine” and “Depression” and saw nothing but cautious nods to the potential efficacy of the drug in fighting the blues. Might ketamine…

in the movie ‘The Runner’ by Jason Chase ‘The Runner’ by Jason Chase shows the Drug War at its racist best. The screenplay tries to make a villain out of the usual suspects, including the obligatory coke-dealing Hispanic Drug Dealer, “Local Legend,” and his black teenage admirer, Blake. …

Good-looking robots three times more likely to be called human than their homely counterparts — In the movie Future World, sex robot Suki Waterhouse is so convincingly hot that she becomes the great love interest of both the good guy and the bad guy of the film, Jeffrey Wahlberg and James Franco respectively, and even turns the heads of two female co-stars, thereby facilitating a…