Friday, January 31, 2014
Current Events.
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Sipping on beer #2 (of 15) at 1942 after watching the evening news. Sip. Buzzing slightly. This is always a good time to re-read last week... Yep. Strangely, I only like re-reading that stuff when I'm buzzing.
Back from the fridge with beer #3 at 1954. Sip. I have a few notes:
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The Super Bowl. Amazingly, the first two states to legalize Marijuana have football teams playing in The Super Bowl! Coincidence, of course. I wonder how different a football game would seem to a bunch of fans who are 'high' on Marijuana. Beer apparently goes well with Super Bowl Sunday, but Pot? Huh? Beer and Pot? My guess is that Pot would put a huge 'damper' on such a hearty party. And what would a 'Super Bowl' game look like if the players were Stoned? Why isn't there a law against Stoned Football? Such questions only arise in the era of grudging legality. Sip. Stoned 'blitz' (fast) chess games are really interesting to the players of those games because the brain's 'time sense' is affected such that Time seems to slow down, and you get ten or fiften minutes added to your clock.
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Amanda Knox is in the news again as an Appeals Court in Italy has reversed the reversal of her conviction. This kind of 'double negative' doesn't happen in the U.S. for some reason, which is why the American Justice System is so boring, compared to the Italian system. For example: Wouldn't you love to have been 'a fly on the wall' during the trial of Galileo for the crime of 'Heliocentrism'? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo). The Italian Justice System has improved significantly since the times of Galileo, but some would say, 'Not enough.' I remember being struck by those news videos of an Italian courtroom showing Crucifixes hanging on the courtroom wall. Pretty weird.
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Sipping on beer #2 (of 15) at 1942 after watching the evening news. Sip. Buzzing slightly. This is always a good time to re-read last week... Yep. Strangely, I only like re-reading that stuff when I'm buzzing.
Back from the fridge with beer #3 at 1954. Sip. I have a few notes:
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The Super Bowl. Amazingly, the first two states to legalize Marijuana have football teams playing in The Super Bowl! Coincidence, of course. I wonder how different a football game would seem to a bunch of fans who are 'high' on Marijuana. Beer apparently goes well with Super Bowl Sunday, but Pot? Huh? Beer and Pot? My guess is that Pot would put a huge 'damper' on such a hearty party. And what would a 'Super Bowl' game look like if the players were Stoned? Why isn't there a law against Stoned Football? Such questions only arise in the era of grudging legality. Sip. Stoned 'blitz' (fast) chess games are really interesting to the players of those games because the brain's 'time sense' is affected such that Time seems to slow down, and you get ten or fiften minutes added to your clock.
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Amanda Knox is in the news again as an Appeals Court in Italy has reversed the reversal of her conviction. This kind of 'double negative' doesn't happen in the U.S. for some reason, which is why the American Justice System is so boring, compared to the Italian system. For example: Wouldn't you love to have been 'a fly on the wall' during the trial of Galileo for the crime of 'Heliocentrism'? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo). The Italian Justice System has improved significantly since the times of Galileo, but some would say, 'Not enough.' I remember being struck by those news videos of an Italian courtroom showing Crucifixes hanging on the courtroom wall. Pretty weird.
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