"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Tragedy of Stoner Comedy
"Media outlets didn’t need a toxicology report before deciding that Rudy Eugene—the maniac who over Memorial Day weekend chewed off a homeless man’s face in Miami before being shot dead by police—had been high on “bath salts.” The synthetic drug is America’s latest craze, or panic, and now there were grisly images to go with it—what might as well have been scenes from a zombie film."
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