MangoZeen - Thailand, Bangkok, Pattaya to USA, NewYork, Brooklyn, the webzine of Peter Smith
I drank organic vodka in celebration of Earth Day. The mixer was organic ginger ale. Glass bottles. A glass glass. No plastic. It went well with my Happy Meal #3.
Supposedly civilization started when hunter-gatherers discovered fermented fruits. One of them drank it. He survived and explained his out-of-the-body experience. The primitives understood that to achieve this euphoria with regularity they had to grow crops.
Thus the birth of agriculture.
Unless you believe in alien abduction.
Lately I’ve been arguing that the age of the car is coming to an end.
Supporters of the meshing of fire, steel, and wheel guffaw my prediction.
“Cars will always be with us.” Older adults are adamant about our addiction to cars without recognizing the generational shift in progress.
“There are no cars in Star Trek, but there are trains,” I counter without reservation. I am a firm believer in ‘Live long and prosper’, plus more young people are abandoning the car in favor of alternative transportation. According to a report in the New Republic “In 1976, three-quarters of all 17-year-olds had drivers’ licenses. By 2008, that was down to 49 percent.”
Once trolleys connected America.
The auto industry bought them and sold us cars.
Everything good comes to an end when it isn’t good anymore.
Poor lil GTO.
ps for a tour of the the world of trolleys please go to the following URL
http://www.trolleystop.com
Four years ago
April 21, 2020
No planes
In the sky
No people
On Vanderbilt Avenue
Alone
Same today
2024
Afternoon
April cold
Gray clouds
A pale silver sun
Over a bankrupt luxury condo
A few people on the sidewalk
Four years ago
None
Me
Out for a walk
Alone
We survived that crisis
Fifteen thousand years ago
The Ice Age
A wall of ice
A mile high
Over Clinton Hill
Homo erectus
Survived
We will survive the now to come
World population
2050
500 million
I will be one of us
97
In Thailand
With my children
Grandchildren
Great-grandchildren
My wives
Rice paddies
Green running west to Burma.
No planes in the sky
Only the stars.
Ganga is legal in eight states and twenty states have allowed its use for medical purposes. Last year more money was spent on reefer than liquor in Aspen, Colorado. According to the Aspen Times legal distributors of cannabis in Aspen earned $11.3 million in revenue in 2017 compared with $10.5 million for liquor stores. Crime is down as are drunk driving arrests. The herb is a good thing, although that does keep buzzkills from judging our happiness as an rt.com commenter wrote, “We are a intoxicant obsessed species. If your life is so bad that you have to intoxicate yourself on some type of substance to enjoy it. you are pathetic.”
This losers can accept defeat and even worse the US AG wants to pursue a hardline against the Weed, calling for stricter enforcement against the happier people. Of course his edict has nothing to do with the fact that Jeffery Sessions has invested millions in for-profit prisons.
Less arrests.
Less profit.
This 4/20 lets show them our numbers.
Free the Weed. Disband the DEA and free the POWs.
Victory is at hand.
Today is 4/20, when people celebrate smoking marijuana worldwide, despite the draconian laws against the weed.
In total 48 states have legalized marijuana use.
The hold-outs come as no surprise.
God and pot do not mix.
Idaho and Nebraska are the final die-hard anti reefer backwaters. Denying the fact that the States and Federal government have lost the War on Drugs.
We only have one thing to say to them.
Leave us alone.
Happy 4/20.
Enjoy Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.