Philosophical!

Because there’s a ton of opioid abuse and overdosing in rural areas and particularly in the South. I’m thinking of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana.

And don’t get too worked up. I was just floating a second potential interpretation of the earlier comment.

I think they meant that the people who really need this treatment are probably the same people who typically dig their heels in over getting vaccinations.

I have a firm “no opinions on unfinished books” policy.

I JUST finished Abominable. The observations OP is making really apply to Abominable as well IMO.

Without spoilers, it really seemed like the book couldn’t pick a lane towards the end. There was some Scooby-Doo nonsense that I just wasn’t onboard for. There was one threat, then it was clear that the threat was actually a different thing, then at the end maybe it was the first thing too!!

I like ambiguity in books, but this felt like indecision.

By the transitive property, cocaine is love.

Alberti is a good choice. I bet he wrote a pretty interesting paper. Architecture. Art. Books. Philosophy. The dude did it all.

I never cared. Never had a preference. Never thought about it.

Looks like I saved myself time and energy.

It’s what you oughta not do, but you do anyway.

I liked Blackadder too. It’s fun to have a show that incorporates historical figures and events.

I actually really liked Upstart Crow. There’s so many jokes that could only be made in the context of that program. It’s a show for fans of Shakespeare who would like to explore that interest in a sitcom vehicle. I liked the Mitchell-style humor in character as Shakespeare, but I found the rest of the cast to be a bit boring.

But Mitchell convincing the old actors to not play Romeo and Juliet because the real stars are Priest and Nurse? That’s good Elizabethan sitcom material.

Yeah. The comedian writing books is a clear shot across the established author’s bow. Don’t get comfortable, David Mitchell. David Mitchell is making incursions into your turf.

The battle for primacy between David Michell the author and David Mitchell the comedian rages on. Partisan factions continue to support their preferred candidate.

I can’t imagine any sort of voluntary participation thing that we could get even a third of the country to reliably do. Anything coming from the top-down automatically loses half of the population.

Sometimes I think about everything we use social security numbers for and all the different uses they have in a modern technology-driven society. Can you imagine if the federal government told the citizens of today that they were going to assign everyone a number to help keep track of them? I don’t think it would go over smoothly.