It's a fantastic book that brilliantly illuminates the false dichotomy of red team vs blue team politics and news media.
We should all be careful of the corporate press. Their purpose is to profit, not inform. This applies both to red team and blue team news media. Comfortable lies are profitable while difficult truths are not.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Silencing voices we don't like only give them credence and power, especially in the age of the internet and new media.
Yeah, in fact, Postgres encourages the use of TEXT over VARCHAR. The documentation even states:
There is no performance difference among these three types, apart from increased storage space when using the blank-padded type, and a few extra CPU cycles to check the length when storing into a length-constrained column.
The majority of drug addicts are victims of abuse. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3051362 They need medical / mental health benefits. Drug addiction is clearly a medical issue. Let's treat it as such.
We didn't learn our lesson with Alcohol, so we repeated history with the war on drugs. Now we are failing to learn our lesson yet again.
Logic, reason, and education are not the driving factors for making drugs illegal. Fear, lack of education, politics, and deep misunderstanding are the true drivers of this insane ideology.
