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Ten bucks for these 5 infused joints is the crazy strong stuff and that's expensive for here. The mediocre weed is 25 bucks an ounce. Those five joints are 1.3 grams x 5 = 6.5 grams. That's just shy of a quarter ounce for ten bucks, 12 with the draconian Michigan reefer tax(es).

you should cross the border and try Ohio weed.

The best pat of the holidays was having to hang the presents from the curtain rods in a cargo net and Mandy’s advent calendar. She loved Christmas.

Then after paying for insurance instead of, for example, funding retirement,  if you do make a claim, they will have lawyers and experts at the ready to dispel your claim.  And every quarter they post record profits. That is the number one problem in America - because they are the same group that has made healthcare a luxury item.  In all the discussions we have about health care, maybe 10% are about doctors or possible medical conditions and 90% trying to sort through the bullshit from 30 different insurance carriers all trying to out-screw one another. It's complete bullshit. No other country on Earth has such a fucked up arrangement and we are  far and away the richest and most technologically advanced nation on the planet.

I have never in my life had a mortgage payment that is as much as I pay for insurance.  That is so upside down.  I keep thinking we're desperadoes. There's nothing wrong with what we make. I was actually kind of surprised by how much it is. It's that we don't get to keep a nickel of it and we don't get much in return.

What we pay for insurance could literally have funded a generous retirement account.  There is no more middle class. And it's insurance. We're required by law to insure our cars, in some cases you a required to have flood insurance, health insurance - real coverage for a family would be 2 grand a month if you can afford that - we can't. So we have some bullshit from the "marketplace" that is 100% useless. 
15 years ago, I had a six-figure bank account and Blue Cross.  I don't have a rusty Porsche, I didn't take a trip around the world, I didn't snort coke off a hooker's back.  It just vanished. I wish I would have blown it. I wish I would have walked away from a mortgage.

Most of the folks I know who think they are middle class are just working class with a lot of debt. 

I loved drive ins. It was one of the best parts of Summer. The movies that were specifically made for them were classic. There used to be, many years ago., a tv station that played them. Dianne Ladd et al.
Damn. Bruce Dern, Harry Stanton and the one I loved the most as a teenager.

There were a lot of traffic circles or roundabouts in NJ back in the day. One drive-in could be seen from the traffic circle. They were playing a movie called the Minx. A heated love scene caused a multi car pile up on the circle. lol  Those scenes were not common back in the sixties.

"DETROIT (WXYZ) — A man was fatally shot at an unauthorized barbershop business inside a Detroit school Friday night, police said."

....Officers went to the school to investigate. When they got there, they learned that a contracted janitor at the school was running an unauthorized “barbershop-style operation” in the back of the school after hours.

Police said someone texted the janitor saying they wanted a haircut. Another person arrived at the school and opened fire on the janitor’s customer during his hair cut.

The victim was a 21-year-old man, police said.

The janitor was not hurt."


...and a week ago:

"DETROIT (WXYZ) — Two men in their 30s were shot and killed Wednesday night at Flyy Cutz barbershop on Greenfield and Trojan on Detroit's west side in what police are calling a targeted attack."

...The shooting happened around 9:20 p.m. Wednesday, leaving the barbershop community devastated and searching for answers."



...I always tip my barber. I feel bad for him because he's bald and his livelihood depends on people whose problem is too much hair.

Barber shops amongst the Detroit negro community is something entirely different than what we are familiar with. They stay open all night and there's an implication of criminality associated with them.