Specifically, I was referring to medical professionals and hospital workers I knew. Detox units and rehab was a part of the system, but people who dealt with alcoholics and addicts of all types every day would still say it was a matter of will power and not an illness.

I used to work in public health, and even among educated people there was a lot of prejudice against the idea that addiction was beyond the individuals control.

He was lucky enough to be born at the right time and in the right place, and thinks that he earned everything that was blindly handed to him.

At least he’s smart enough to recognize a dumpster fire when it’s happneing before his face

I have to apologize to Keifer Sutherland and the creators of 24.

When they did an season where the President of the US was actively working against the country I threw my hands up and declared the show had jumped the shark.

Here’s the thing about “infinity.”

There are an infinite number of possibilities between 1 and 2. 1.01, 1.001, 1.0001, etc etc. None of those infinite possibilities is 3.

They are just harmless fireworks. They are even useful for signaling ships at sea of dangerous tides.

Sounds like “Anno Dracula” by Kim Newman.

Dracula managed to kill Van Helsing and then married Queen Victoria. AS Prince Consort he’s brought the undead to the Empire. There are vampire trollops who live no better than their ‘warm’ sisters, and great Lords.

Fun book, and first of a series.

If it was an American idea we’d be doing it every year.

No one thought it would be a great idea in the past.

If it had been a popular idea Trump would have gotten it in his last term.

I’m not going to reply again, because it’s a stupid thing and I don’t feel like talking about it.

This is the first time anyone ever made a mistake on the interwebs, and I got to be there.

[jk, have a good one]

This is not an “American” idea, this is all on Trump.

The real generals shot this idea down in his last term and now the man-baby wants his toys.

Confused. The Federal government cut you a check for $40 million, or they cut the budget by $40 million?

The really stupid thing is that the country needs all sorts of capital projects. Fix the roads and put in a better energy grid and clean up the lakes and rivers. Lots of basic blue collar jobs.

I have bowls. One near the front door for all the change in my pockets, another for keys and wallet.

Learn to cook the veggies right.

Some veggies taste better roasted. Experiment

It’s been over four years since she promised to give a press conference and explain how a nudie model got an Einstein visa.

Also, I can’t believe that Stormy Daniels never thought to do a DVD with Melania and Ivanka look-alikes.

The only reason I don’t think Melania has any ties to Putin is that she wouldn’t treat Donnie so shabbily if she had to keep him on a leash. Remember she stayed in NYC for six months at the start of his first term. A handler would be in constant contact.

There was a movie that came out one year before Reagan was elected. “Norma Rae” with Sally Field. It’s about organizing a Union in a small southern town where there’s one big employer.

A lot of US businesses relocated to the South after the Oil Crisis. Reagan and his people feared that those ignorant hillbillies would join Unions, so they moved manufacturing overseas.

I blame Melania. If he was getting love and support at home, he wouldn’t have to spend so much time looking for affection outside the home.

Only mildly sarcastic.

You know who else was a forward scout in WW2?

Kurt Vonnegut! Billy Pilgrim runs into a pair of them before he gets captured by the Germans in “Slaughterhouse Five.”

That was one of the most dangerous jobs in the infantry, because your mission was to locate enemy troops far ahead of any support.

In the Fantastic Four comics, Dr. Doom wears a mask because he was hideously deformed by a science experiment gone wrong. Later writers retroconned it so that Doom had a tiny scratch but was so insanely egotistical that a tiny flaw was too much for him to bear.

I like to think that the kompromat is something like Trump having premature ejaculation or erectile dysfunction, or crying that his Daddy didn’t love him. Something a normal person could shrug off and move on from.