So why am I not anti-drug? I've been close to several people who I believed were suffering from drug problems -- even people who destroyed their lives with drug abuse -- yet I'm a libertarian when it comes to drug laws ( Read more... )

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Mary Gaitskill's lifetime theme is women damaged by participation in a male-dominated, consumer culture

There's so much of this "life is too short" stuff. I don't think life is too short. What happens next when you don't think life is too short?

We must remember that the future is neither wholly ours nor wholly not ours, so that neither must we count upon it as quite certain to come nor despair of it as quite certain not to come.

I don't like to use the word "acceptance",

but I think we can become comfortable with what we cannot solve