Randi on stage @ 1444 Market Street 1997

Randi on stage @ 1444 Market Street  1997
Randi on Stage 1997 at 1444 Market Street, SF, CA

Jack and yours truly today

Jack and yours truly today
Randi and Jack on the "Cadillac Campsite Tour"
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Welcome To Fifty Five Is The New!

Hello out there!
What's it to you, turning the age of Fifty-five? You don't have to be turning it tomorrow, you could have already turned that corner a while back. That part doesn't matter so much.
While it's important what one feels, what matters most of all that one feels, that one feels anything at all.
So, as an exercise in self-examination and a way of getting over an incredible writer's block, I submit this blog to the World Wide Web, and I submit myself to a bit of mirror gazing.
Inspired by the movie "Julie & Julia," I will blog for one year, which will include my turning fifty-five, and see what I find.
Who knows? Maybe fifty-five will be something fantastic...like the New Me.

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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Drug War

Moonscape Fractal  by rcw
Forty years ago yesterday (2/16), the Drug War in America was declared.
Where has it gotten us?

Some may argue that drugs are evil, that they destroy lives   There are people who have problems with drugs; but just how much exposure and demand would have taken place without prohibition?  I think that's the real culprit.

How can we know how to act responsibly if we're not given the option to be responsible?

Now I'll admit to having had my moments dabbling in different substances back in the '60s....but I soon got most of it out of my system. I think we have to figure out how to make life more worthwhile for ourselves, then perhaps we won't have to run away from it so much....so deeply.

At the same time, a certain bit of intoxication is actually okay....and we aren't the only species who thinks so.  Ever watch a cat with catnip?  I rest my case.

For today, Fifty Five Is The New Drug War....Moderation not prohibition.   End the Drug War.  40 years of Injustice and a failed

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