Re: Portland

On 5/15/12 10:37 PM, Malachi Kenney wrote:
> I stumble into places thinking to order a fried egg and a
>bourbon only to find out that they sell designer t-shirts
>and disallow indoor smoking. My neighborhood went away. It's
>better now, but it's most definitely not mine. Now it belongs to the
>new crop of people too young to know better, and they, honestly, seem
>to be a great deal more awesome than my crop was.

NO place allows indoor smoking now, at least not around here. It seems
to be the quintessential sin. When we use the Community Building for
voting, there's no smoking even on the grounds! (about an acre, plenty
of air volume to dilute any of that evil "second-hand smoke")

I don't think it's better. I think that we're losing more of our
freedom to determine our own lives and our own level of risk, day by
day. At this rate, in twenty years (I probably won't live that much
longer, but oh well) everybody is going to be robots, preprogrammed by
the government to do only the government's determination of "good" and
nothing else.



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