"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Not convinced that Portman's cause is right, though. Banning bath salts because some idiots are ingesting the stuff and turning psycho? I dunno. What do you guys think?
As the guy in the Castrol ad would say, bath salts ain't bath salts. Sounds nasty, but I recall similar claims being made about the effects of PCP forty years ago. I wonder what's really changed.
Rob Portman seems like a pretty decent guy, and I was prepared to support him, but now I don't know. Seeking a federal ban on bath salts? In the first place, if bath salts are banned, then the idiots will just find another deadly substance to try, and we sane ones who value our skin will be without our bath salts.
I don't know that the government should regulate a damn thing except that I'd really like them to regulate their spending of our tax dollars. If I can't afford it, neither can they.
And if somebody harms another while in an impaired state, sell 'em into slavery in order to support the injured party for the rest of their life.
As the guy in the Castrol ad would say, bath salts ain't bath salts.
ReplyDeleteSounds nasty, but I recall similar claims being made about the effects of PCP forty years ago. I wonder what's really changed.
DAMN that man! All my zombie hunting preparations are going to be in vain.
ReplyDeleteOh, well. There's always democrats.
Rob Portman seems like a pretty decent guy, and I was prepared to support him, but now I don't know. Seeking a federal ban on bath salts? In the first place, if bath salts are banned, then the idiots will just find another deadly substance to try, and we sane ones who value our skin will be without our bath salts.
ReplyDeletePoliticians just can't leave well enough alone.
Nah, leave 'em "legal" - but declare "open season" on anybody chewing on a face. Or gnawing on a thigh-bone, perhaps.
ReplyDeleteDrugs this nasty are a self-curing problem. I tend to think of it as "evolution in action".
I'm with mojo. Natural selection works both ways, but I'm confident that we conservatives will survive.
ReplyDelete"Bath salts" is a euphemism for a seriously nasty designer drug. It makes PCP look like Advil.
ReplyDeleteRichard: Well, they should have made that clear. Same as I did, when the notorious drug, "Paco", started making headlines in South America.
ReplyDeleteI don't know that the government should regulate a damn thing except that I'd really like them to regulate their spending of our tax dollars. If I can't afford it, neither can they.
ReplyDeleteAnd if somebody harms another while in an impaired state, sell 'em into slavery in order to support the injured party for the rest of their life.
Swampy: that's a damn good idea.
ReplyDeleteSwampwoman, that's the most intelligent suggestion I've ever seen to reinstate the institution of slavery.
ReplyDeleteAlthough... would you really want a bath salts huffing moron as a slave? Dog food, maybe, but somebody to work for you? I'm dubious.
Rebecca: I think if you chained the guy out in the yard, it would probably be ok.
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