That was dope...dude

Poor thing. If they had just left it alone after the tranq, it probably would have just found a quiet corner and gone to sleep instead of biting that ass! IMO, they made things incredibly worse by running and screaming, terrifying the poor doped up cat. I hope it's OK, at least it likely won't be doing this again.

That's a dope looking ride. Very steampunk.

I think there is a some truth to it being a gateway drug. But not in the sense that most people think of it. The reason I consider it a gateway drug is because once you start buying weed, you've begun to contact criminals and buy stuff from them. It makes it that much easier to now go a step further. You have the contacts, and you have already mentally accepted breaking the law. If you bought dope at the corner store like beer, the dope smoker would be no closer to harder drugs than the average teenager that buys beer.

However, to say that dope is a gateway drug on account of it's effects on the user makes no more sense than the same argument for alcohol.

And a smoothe transition into Dope Hat

loved it. thanks to both of you. haven't had time to peruse TED as much in a while.

and i'm also a calligrapher, though sadly only in english.

so if anyone who liked this clip wants, i can toss you a genuine hardcopy mailed to you (or ms paint emailed to you) dope ass calligraphized version of any favorite quotation.

*doublepromote dope ass graffiti art

Maybe it's easier to see why some people think he's a tool if you imagine that he hadn't been arrested. Let's say that this was a day before his action, and he tells you that he's going out to the FBI to film the building, all entrances, and the people coming and going. He tells you that he is doping this to test their reaction, and he expects the cops to interact with him, but that he won't say a single word to them until / unless they overstep their boundaries.

You would agree with him at that point, I assume, that what he's planning is legal, but wouldn't you also have a sense that maybe he was being a bit unreasonably provocative? That that's the 'tool' aspect of his perfectly legal action?

...And one more thing that I think is interesting:

In many cases, even if it is 100% proven that somebody did some very bad things, I don't personally think that should (necessarily) negate our respect for the good things they did.

Michael Jackson may have been a serial pedo, which is pretty damning in general. BUT, *that* doesn't make his music bad, or make people who like his music bad.

Cosby almost certainly did drug and have sex with a whole bunch of women, without their consent. That is a very shitty thing to do. But it doesn't make his impact on comedy any less real. It doesn't make The Cosby Show a shitty TV program, that I/we should feel ashamed of having enjoyed.

OJ Simpson almost certainly got away with murder. I think that makes him a scumbag, but I can accept that many people think/thought of him as "OJ Simpson, running back, actor, announcer, etc." rather than "OJ Simpson, murderer". And even though I personally dislike the notion that he got away with killing people, I can watch video of him playing football and appreciate his undeniable talent, or watch him in The Naked Gun and still chuckle.


Sports figures like Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong are a different story, at least for me personally. Even though doping or using steroids isn't even remotely comparable to the objective badness of pedophilia, rape, or murder ... those two guys were respected specifically for their sports accomplishments, which they "cheated" to obtain. For me personally at least, that completely invalidates those accomplishments, which were pretty much the only reasons to look up to them. In the meantime, I might think that OJ is a terrible human being, but at least I can still respect what he did on the football field.

Maybe that is a weird distinction to make, but it makes sense to me, anyway.

Damn straight. Dope will get you through times with no money far better than money will get you through times with no dope!-Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

Side note, I'm smoking some awesome 'girl scout cookie' right now!

*ban Can't post your own videos. Them the rules Although aquaponics is dope shit.

Dope rig. Call me impressed *promote

His company gave him 500 bucks so is the dope company property?

Her shit was always super dope. Songs and videos.