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the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« on: January 07, 2014, 02:25:39 PM »
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WilliamPitt (56,054 posts)   Tue Jan 7, 2014, 09:32 AM

Homegrown

(Image: Marijuana gavel via Shutterstock)

Homegrown
By William Rivers Pitt
Truthout | Op-Ed

Tuesday 07 January 2014

Homegrown's
All right with me
Homegrown
Is the way it should be
Homegrown
Is a good thing
Plant that bell
And let it ring...

- Neil Young

It was late September in 1993, and my friends and I were at a campground to enjoy a weekend away from the world. It was unusually cold as I shrugged my way out of the tent, and after answering an insistent call of nature just inside a line of trees to the east of our campsite, I set about the work of getting the fire going again. One by one, my friends emerged from their own tents in various stages of disrepair - the previous night had been a doozy, and more than a few of my crew looked and felt as if they had been devoured and shat out by wolves - to warm themselves by the flames.
 
Once the coffee was going and the blood was flowing, a joint the size of New Jersey began making the rounds, as was tradition, a soothing balm for the tragically hung-over among us. After a fashion, I happened to notice a man two campsites over giving our little campfire circle a long, hard stare. One didn't have to be stoned to be paranoid about smoking marijuana twenty years ago, and my first thought was, "Cop." I quietly told my friends to cool it, cool it, something's off with that guy, and everyone immediately began doing the I-Ain't-Doing-Nothin' Shuffle.
 
When the man started walking towards me, I began to do an inventory in my head of the cash I had on hand, the cash my friends had, in the event I wound up needing bail money. He presented himself before me, put out his hand, and introduced himself.
 
I hope I'm not intruding, he said. Not at all, I told him with trepidation flying around my head like I was Tippi Hedren. I offered him some coffee while my friends milled around the campsite pretending they weren't baked and had important stuff to do, casting furtive glances my way as they waited for the hammer to fall.
 
Listen, he said, I noticed you guys were smoking a joint.

Uh-huh, I replied.

I don't know anyone who smokes weed, he said.

Uh-huh, I replied.

My father has cancer, he said. It's bad. He can't eat because of his treatments, and that's as bad as the cancer. His doctor pulled me aside last week and mentioned marijuana as something that could help him.
 
Uh-huh, I replied.

You don't know me, he said, but I was wondering if you could give me some, so I can see if it helps him. I don't know anyone else I can ask.
 
I was still. This is either a set-up, I thought, or this guy is for real. As a NORML supporter, I knew full well that what he was asking for could help his father, but the very last thing I needed was a drug arrest on my record. I took a moment with his eyes, and decided to make a leap of faith...
 
The rest: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21058-william-rivers-pitt-homegrown

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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2014, 02:36:36 PM »
The Reefer from Rindge give up some of his stash?

I don't think so.
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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2014, 02:49:39 PM »
Didn't read it.  Does he say how much he soaked the poor bastard for the dope.
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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2014, 02:56:49 PM »
No doubt handed over at twice the market rate, if it ever happened at all, which is doubtful at best.
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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2014, 02:57:23 PM »
 :bouncy:

The bouncy Pitt complete with Neil Young lyric goodness.  No doctor is going to "pull me aside" and recommend an illegal drug for you to self medicate with.
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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2014, 03:04:13 PM »
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I was still. This is either a set-up, I thought, or this guy is for real. As a NORML supporter, I knew full well that what he was asking for could help his father, but the very last thing I needed was a drug arrest on my record. I took a moment with his eyes, and decided to make a leap of faith...
 
The rest: http://www.truth-out.org/...iam-rivers-pitt-homegrown

... And then, as I was just about to sell him two fingers of ditch weed, a cop jumped out of the bushes.   :rofl:

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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2014, 04:22:10 PM »
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I was still. This is either a set-up, I thought, or this guy is for real. As a NORML supporter, I knew full well that what he was asking for could help his father, but the very last thing I needed was a drug arrest on my record. I took a moment with his eyes, and decided to make a leap of faith...
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Where as underage sex with students.......
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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2014, 04:25:10 PM »
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I took a moment with his eyes, and decided to make a leap of faith...
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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2014, 04:37:50 PM »
Shhh ...Will is trying very hard to reinvent himself as a Hunter Thompson type recluse, don't disturb him.
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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2014, 04:41:12 PM »
Quote from: JakeStyle on January 07, 2014, 04:37:50 PM
Shhh ...Will is trying very hard to reinvent himself as a Hunter Thompson type recluse, don't disturb him.

I'll be glad to help out.  I have a .357 mag I could loan him.
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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2014, 04:47:54 PM »
Quote from: Bad Dog on January 07, 2014, 04:41:12 PM
I'll be glad to help out.  I have a .357 mag I could loan him.

It worked out great for everyone, the locals were sick of that asshole.
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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2014, 04:57:29 PM »
Quote from: JakeStyle on January 07, 2014, 04:47:54 PM
It worked out great for everyone, the locals were sick of that asshole.

I expect the locals and his family feel the same about this drunkard.
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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2014, 05:04:47 PM »
Utterly nonsensical.  Typical of Wee Willie.
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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2014, 05:11:47 PM »
Poor wallduded DUmmy Raven Jane Pitt, supporting herself, her unemployable alcoholic son, his tattooed bride, and their spawn, all from a dwindling family inheritance that has done nothing but fade since the early 1960s.

No Pitt has been known to be self-supporting since Oswald plugged JFK. They all live off money earned in the 1950s.

They're fortunate that their forebears prior to that time were successful men, but a couple generations of duds can destroy any legacy.

And this current generation is most certainly a dud. Nice, how Willy talks about his drug use, when there's no one to pay for it but Mom.

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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2014, 05:25:08 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on January 07, 2014, 05:11:47 PM
Poor wallduded DUmmy Raven Jane Pitt, supporting herself, her unemployable alcoholic son, his tattooed bride, and their spawn, all from a dwindling family inheritance that has done nothing but fade since the early 1960s.

No Pitt has been known to be self-supporting since Oswald plugged JFK. They all live off money ^{someone else} earned in the 1950s.
They're fortunate that their forebears prior to that time were successful men, but a couple generations of duds can destroy any legacy.

And this current generation is most certainly a dud. Nice, how Willy talks about his drug use, when there's no one to pay for it but Mom.



And the truth of this is the reason Occ -u- pie and all the other moochers are wrong.  The Pitts are a perfect example of inherited wealth sitting on their laurels.  Characters straight out of Atlas Shrugged. 

I guess I will have to start calling him "WEEd Willie"  :rotf:
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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #15 on: January 07, 2014, 05:27:32 PM »
Pitt is so........................................deep.  His style of writing is one of someone who is trying way too hard to be relevant, which makes him seem even more irrelevant. 

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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #16 on: January 07, 2014, 06:53:52 PM »
Quote from: Traveshamockery on January 07, 2014, 05:27:32 PM
Pitt is so........................................deep.  His style of writing is one of someone who is trying way too hard to be relevant, which makes him seem even more irrelevant. 

 :stoner:

I ran across this on FR and thought of Pitt:

http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

Your results may vary since what you will get changes with every viewing.  Just.Like.Pitt :-)  Random generation of gibberish.
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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #17 on: January 07, 2014, 07:03:05 PM »
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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #18 on: January 07, 2014, 08:56:12 PM »
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I helped a sick man feel better, and enjoyed myself besides. For doing that, both I and the man I met at that campfire twenty years ago felt like furtive criminals as we sealed our pact to make his dying father feel good enough to eat something as the cancer chewed away at him. Twenty years later, I remember that exchange with the deepest fondness and pride. Unjust laws are not made to be followed, but are made to be defied and broken.
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Does that apply to ObamaCare, Pitt?  Or is that merely "the law of the land"? 

God, they're so clueless.
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Re: the Bostonian Drunkard writes a yawner
« Reply #19 on: January 08, 2014, 12:36:58 AM »
Quote from: Traveshamockery on January 07, 2014, 05:27:32 PM
Pitt is so........................................deep.  His style of writing is one of someone who is trying way too hard to be relevant, which makes him seem even more irrelevant. 

 :stoner:

I don't know how he can be so full of shit and full of himself at the same time, it's some kind of Gawd-awful space-time paradox...and no, they're not the same thing, you can at least use shit for fertilizer.
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