Of course they should. End all drug prohibition.

http://ift.tt/LLEVqd The icon drawing of Bob Avakian is the best part of this strip.

“Due process of law.” Abolish the death penalty. Executions are premeditated murder.

Hey so if anyone ever invents a way to power an engine with Tumblr debate drama, J.K. Rowling has just handed us a perpetual motion machine.

Day old rice + 1 egg + sauteed mushrooms + chopped pecans + left over half can of grocery store Pad Thai stir fry sauce + stir fry. Surprisingly delicious?

The Obama administration, and the Bush administration before it, have made physically invasive, unwarranted searches a routine part of daily travel. They have dissembled and lied about what they are doing, promoted the most ridiculous patriotically-correct claims about what they were doing, how they were doing, how much we should trust the people doing it, and what it was needed for. Of course it is ludicrous, and obscene, that electronic strip-searches, or a physically invasive pat-down search, have been made a routine requirement for getting onto an airplane. The TSA, and everything that it does, are extreme and routinized invasions of civil liberty, and they ought to be immediately and completely abolished.

“No.” -Melanie S. Pinkert

http://ift.tt/1a503mo That is all.

Hey so O.K., biblio/research question: anyone know anything about a the life, thoughts, work or writings of a 19th century Homeopathy or Eclectic medicine advocate, named “Charles E. Taylor, M.D., F.A.A.,” of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies? Or about “The Medical Advocate” newsletter, active in the 1880s? I’m asking because in this article on “Freethought in Medicine”: http://ift.tt/1jPLkix . . . . alongside a generally blistering attack on government privileges and monopolies to favored methods in medical care, and phrases like “The very essence of social advancement being rebellion, or a revolt against what is generally known as constituted authority,” we find a long block-quote about privileged scientific academies, “As an eminent writer has justly remarked.” The unnamed “eminent writer” being Bakunin, and the remark being a long quote from the section of GOD AND THE STATE on the nature of authority, “It is the characteristic of privilege, and of every privileged position, to kill the mind and heart of man. The privileged man, whether politically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart. . . . The greatest scientific genius, from the moment he becomes an officially licensed savant [missing phrase sic], inevitably lapses into sluggishness,” etc. etc. etc. (INB4 homeopathy is quackery. I know it is. So was nearly all medicine in the 1880s. I’m glad we’ve moved on since then. Not relevant to this inquiry.)

Well, yes. http://ift.tt/1baqeWW