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March 31, 2008

Drugs should be legal.

Yep. That’s coming from a guy who has never even smoked a cigarette. Our prohibition policy (click me!) is just plain stupid, economically and socially.
The United States spent > $13,000,000,000 last year on the drug war alone. Hmmmm, if we repurposed that money, could it be used to cover healthcare for all of our citizens [...]

Filed by ryanroth at March 31st, 2008 under Dijyano, Our World
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March 28, 2008

Chicago

I was out there this last week and got to spend lots of time with my grandpa who is recovering from aspiration pneumonia and slight dysphagia. I also got to spend a few goofy hours with my Godson, who is one dynamic character. That’s Charlie on the left, posing with his brother/my cousin Sam at [...]

Filed by ryanroth at March 28th, 2008 under General Radness, Life
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March 23, 2008

A few notes on freedom

Or videos rather. Below you’ll find a few tidbits from the freedom front. Yes, I am worried about our “democracy”, our “freedom”, our “foreign policy”, our healthcare costs, and our (America’s) future. Call me alarmist, I call it realist. Be aware people, start to care. Look at the signs around you. I’m not asking you [...]

Filed by ryanroth at March 23rd, 2008 under Our World
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March 15, 2008

oh yapple.

Last week I built a beautiful Jeopardy game for my “Perspectives in Health and Medicine” class, and I needed some way to connect my MacBook to the projector in the class room. Amazon wouldn’t be quick enough since I needed it in T minus 3 hours, so naturally – I scrambled down to the local [...]

Filed by ryanroth at March 15th, 2008 under Life, Our World
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March 13, 2008

My mind almost went blank.

Every thursday at 8:57pm an alarm goes off on my phone. It’s telling me to take out the trash. When I’m lounging around the house, I’m usually wearing the yoga pants I got last year before my surgery. I took the trash out to the curb, looked up, around, and thought to myself – ‘I [...]

Filed by ryanroth at March 13th, 2008 under Dijyano, Life
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