The Shakespeare Lebowski

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” [Ludwig Wittgenstein] The lyrics of "Puff, the Magic Dragon" are based on a 1959 poem by a 19-year-old Cornell University student inspired by an Ogden Nash poem titled "Custard the Dragon". The trio's 1962 recording of "Puff the Magic Dragon" entered the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 charts on March 30, 1963, and peaked at number two. After the song's initial success, speculation arose—as early as a 1964 article in Newsweek—that the song contained veiled references to smoking marijuana. The word "paper" in the name of Puff's human friend Jackie Paper was said to be a reference to rolling papers, the words "by the sea" were interpreted as "by the C" (as in cannabis), the word "mist" stood for "smoke", the land of "Honahlee" stood for hashish, and "dragon" was interpreted as...

                                                                              [pic wallpapershome.com]   https://www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com/44-the-men-who-stare-at-goats/ Anytime you’re dealing with a story involving governments, military, and especially programs that were, at the time, top secret—there’s a lot of room for the unknown. For our story today, we’re dealing with all three. The government, military, and top secret experiments. So how do we know any of this at all? Well, the CIA released hundreds of thousands of previously classified documents under Executive Order 12958 from former President Bill Clinton. That was the basis for Project Jedi. Just to put this into perspective, Project Jedi was the name of a top secret project  inside  of a top secret project....

                           This is an official  USCG photo of Actors 'Beau' and Jeff 'Mullet' Bridges                          No one gives advice ....let it go... GUILT and 'SHAME' =DEPRESSION, DUDE. Brentwood Blues or 'Halls of Anger?' ..Dude I Don't want to be a Soldier Mama...What the fuck has Vietnam got to do with any thing? Well Jeff  like all pointless Wars it was a  lie... The playbook the pimps of war use to lure us into one military fiasco after another, including Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine, does not change.  Freedom and democracy are threatened. Evil must be vanquished.  Human rights must be protected.  The fate of Europe and NATO, along with a "rules-based international order" is at stake. Victory is assured. The results are also the same.  The justifications and narratives are...