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This feels related to a recent Glenn Greenwald post: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale...

I recommend Hate Inc by Matt Taibbi.

It's a fantastic book that brilliantly illuminates the false dichotomy of red team vs blue team politics and news media.

We should all be careful of the corporate press. Their purpose is to profit, not inform. This applies both to red team and blue team news media. Comfortable lies are profitable while difficult truths are not.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Silencing voices we don't like only give them credence and power, especially in the age of the internet and new media.

What's wrong with TEXT type for postgres, mysql, etc? In Postgres you don't need to declare a length for varchar either.

For the sake of sanity let's remember that sugar is at least as addictive as cocaine and heroin. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2013/10/16/research-... It's probably even more addictive if 94% of lab rats prefer sugar over cocaine. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17668074

The majority of drug addicts are victims of abuse. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3051362 They need medical / mental health benefits. Drug addiction is clearly a medical issue. Let's treat it as such.

We didn't learn our lesson with Alcohol, so we repeated history with the war on drugs. Now we are failing to learn our lesson yet again.

Logic, reason, and education are not the driving factors for making drugs illegal. Fear, lack of education, politics, and deep misunderstanding are the true drivers of this insane ideology.