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One of the three craziest people I know is a prominent right-wing pundit with whom I started out life as a young reporter at a Great Metropolitan Daily Newspaper. She was then an RFK liberal, giving Dick Godwin BJs at Ethel Kennedy's pool house. This would turn anybody into a wanger. But that's not why she's crazy.
Codeine cough syrup is. People at the drug store used to say, here comes the Nyquil Lady. Now that she's allegedly clean and sober, she signs up for the prescription stuff once a year. To drink in the New Year.
I wonder if it's a southern thing. My former friend is a big old southerner, and drugging out your baby with codeine syrup is a not-so-secret practice among black and white people in Dixie. Old times there are not forgotten.
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And while we're on the subject of libertarians, it occurs to me, after several years of reading off-the-grid people blogs, that there's a whole shitload of OCD going on out there in the boondocks.
I remember once having a contractor come to my house with a wonderful carpenter who was mostly silent. He had been a Trappist monk for years, and when he spoke the reason became clear. He had an awful stutter.
I think libertarians have sekrit things they need to do out there, and they pretty much don't care what harm it causes the rest of us if they don't clean up their pig shit properly (urban farmers!) or insist it is satan's work to have your child vaccinated.
Au contraire, my sociopathic secessionist friend, it is satan's work to have your child infect mine, or my pregnancy, with measles.
One of the three craziest people I know is a prominent right-wing pundit with whom I started out life as a young reporter at a Great Metropolitan Daily Newspaper. She was then an RFK liberal, giving Dick Godwin BJs at Ethel Kennedy's pool house. This would turn anybody into a wanger. But that's not why she's crazy.
Codeine cough syrup is. People at the drug store used to say, here comes the Nyquil Lady. Now that she's allegedly clean and sober, she signs up for the prescription stuff once a year. To drink in the New Year.
I wonder if it's a southern thing. My former friend is a big old southerner, and drugging out your baby with codeine syrup is a not-so-secret practice among black and white people in Dixie. Old times there are not forgotten.
2.
And while we're on the subject of libertarians, it occurs to me, after several years of reading off-the-grid people blogs, that there's a whole shitload of OCD going on out there in the boondocks.
I remember once having a contractor come to my house with a wonderful carpenter who was mostly silent. He had been a Trappist monk for years, and when he spoke the reason became clear. He had an awful stutter.
I think libertarians have sekrit things they need to do out there, and they pretty much don't care what harm it causes the rest of us if they don't clean up their pig shit properly (urban farmers!) or insist it is satan's work to have your child vaccinated.
Au contraire, my sociopathic secessionist friend, it is satan's work to have your child infect mine, or my pregnancy, with measles.
