"This is the problem with civilians wanting to go to war: once you've been there,...once you've seen it,...you never want to go again, unless you absolutely fucking have to. It's like France."
"Even though yoga communities have verbiage around collectivism as slogans, the reality is they are very focused on themselves,...politically disengaged,...also scientifically illiterate."
- Derek Beres, co-host of the podcast Conspirituality - describing why anti vaccine misinformation spreads through wellness - on NPR.
My entire left arm feels like it's either "asleep" (with that prickly/tingly feeling) or has a sharp pain running through it, and - if I try to relieve that by repositioning my neck - it sets off the injury in my lower back, sending sharp pains through my buttocks, and down my left leg, to my knee.
Anything to help pass long periods of time, in a drug-induced stupor, without moving.
In my current condition, I don't really know how much I can add to the passing scene, but here's some InstaCrackhead calls, as I see them:
As soon as Trayvon Martin went from this, above, to this:
There was lots of reasonable doubt.
Actually, the way the media ginned the story up, from the very beginning, put it there - and I first heard about it from NPR.
I don't know what it's going to take to make the media stop trying to play us like that. It's the same reason I don't always like DRUDGE. Wrong or right, it's all about hype, as though the country doesn't matter. The lesson (considering who profits from it and how) is that it doesn't.
