Notice to the World: I don't give a shit

[Jackpine Radical]

if Michael Phelps smoked pot.

I don't give a shit if ANYBODY (over the age of 18) smokes pot.

I care if people are killed in Iraq.
I care if people are killed in Afghanistan.
I care if people are killed anywhere.

I care if people starve in the streets of America.
I care if people starve anywhere.

I care if people lack health care, or food, or shelter.
I care if children are abused.
I care if ANYBODY is abused.

I care that we are destroying the earth, rendering it uninhabitable with our own wastes.

I care that people are not free to express their love for each other as they see fit.

I care that some people choose to wreck the lives of others because they smoke pot.

But I do not care if anybody smokes pot.

[BlooInBloo]

1. I heard that a-rod used 'roids.

:P

[Jackpine Radical]

3. I don't give a shit about that either.

Hell, I didn't know who either Phelps or A-Rod-whatever were until they got famous for illegal substances.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. The skeptics care.

They worry about it.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. It's all about what is safely out of line in the official/popular narrative

Phelps fits in nicely within the guidelines of what is newsworthy. Distressed americans and the potential for social revolution is not.

[zagging]

5. You sound like a dope fiend

[Jackpine Radical]

7. If I smoke anything, I can't find my toes.

[snot]

6. I

don't give a shit if early embryos with the I.Q. of a carrot are aborted.

I care if any child born is denied healthcare, other necessities of physical and emotional health, an education.

I certainly don't give a shit if consenting adults of any gender perform anal or oral sex, or marry.

Among other things.

[snot]

23. P.S.: Pot law reform ain't my highest priority either; in fact,

I'm a bit embarrassed that that issue features so frequently on DU. I mean, I agree, it should be a non-issue. But it totally does not rate with me relative to over a million mostly innocent Iraqis dead.

[snot]

24. P.P.S.: gun laws also not my highest priority.

[nichomachus]

8. You and Eva Tanguay

The "I don't care girl"

Verse 1
They say I'm crazy, got no sense,
But I don't care.
They may or may not mean offence,
But I don't care;
You see I'm sort of independent,
Of a clever race descendent,
My star is on the ascendant,
That's why I don't care.

Chorus 1
I don't care,
I don't care,
What they may think of me.
I'm happy go lucky,
Men say I am plucky,
So jolly and care free.
I don't care,
I don't care,
If I do get the mean and stony stare.
If I'm never successful,
It won't be distressful,
'Cos I don't care.

[Occam Bandage]

9. Most people don't. I don't. However, many people do. Enough people do

that it is affecting his relationship with his sponsors. I don't really understand why you posted this, to be honest; nobody, I think, is insinuating that you do care, nor does the blowback affect your life any more than his choice of recreational activities does. I don't really care that he smokes pot (and frankly, am surprised that anyone is shocked by that revelation), nor do I care that some people are upset by that, nor do I care that some sponsors no longer wish to associate their product with his image.

[Jackpine Radical]

13. I'm kinda getting at what we choose to devote attention to--mostly in M$M, but

to some extent in the blogosphere aw well.

[JFN1]

10. Does ANYONE actually doubt

that a great percentage of the music, films, acting, books, software, even inventions, were, are, and will be, imagined, produced, or created, by people on one or more drugs? From caffeine and nicotine, alcohol and pot, coke and mushrooms, the things we enjoy in our lives every day were made for us to use and enjoy by people enjoying ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS provided by the very substances named above.

It is greatly hypocritical to suggest that drug users are wrong, or evil, or immoral, while one enjoys the efforts of the very people they denounce.

If you drink alcohol to unwind, smoke or otherwise use nicotine to relax, or caffeine to wake up, who are you to judge anyone's choice of drugs? As long as someone using drugs does no harm to another, WHO CARES????????

[leftstreet]

11. Marijuana Legalization is a Gateway Drug to Freedom and Liberty!

Once people get hooked on the idea of throwing off authoritarian bullshit drug laws, they might wanna get high on other social reforms!

Single payer healthcare
Basic Income

OMG

Can't have that!

[Jackpine Radical]

15. That must be what happened to me

back in the late 60's.

[TahitiNut]

12. It could be worse.

Imagine if he were seen smoking CIGARETTES!!!! (The tobacco-taliban would be enraged.)

:dunce:

[GentryDixon]

14. I emailed Kellog's and told them the same thing.

[scarletwoman]

16. Another damn beatnik.

And prolly a commie pinko to boot.

Don't you understand that if Mike Phelps smokes pot the terra'sts win?

x(
sw

[Jackpine Radical]

17. Aw jeez, no, I didn't know that.

I'm sorry I started all this.

[scarletwoman]

18. It was obviously a cry for help.

I hope you understand now that we HAVE to bomb brown people, and maintain a homeless underclass.

The American Way of Life is not negotiable. :patriot:

sw

[Jackpine Radical]

19. Maybe I could organize a bake sale or something

so we could buy some bombs. Or would it count if I go down to the food pantry and picket it with a "Get a Job You Bums" sign?

[scarletwoman]

20. I like the "Get a Job You Bums" picket idea.

At least it would be something to do with our free time after we lose our jobs. God Bless America!

sw

[KG]

21. I used to give a shit, then I got high. I used to deal with it, then I got high

:smoke:

now I don't give a shit, and you know why?

coz I got high, coz I got high, coz I got high...

[Jackpine Radical]

22. Hi.

[silverojo]

25. I care that Michael Phelps endangered people's lives

First, with the DUI in 2004. Then he arrives at a party where witnesses say he was pretty wasted upon arrival. (Meaning, he was either stoned/drunk while driving. Again.)

My father was killed by a drunk driver, so I definitely give a shit when some punk like Phelps takes the chance of killing someone else's loved ones.

[20score]

26. Well put.

Anyone who does care if Phelps smoked pot has something seriously wrong with them.