Day: January 6, 2018

Shh! Don’t Tell Jeff Sessions

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I went to a local medicinal marijuana dispensary that, as of today, is licensed to sell recreational marijuana in California. The place was packed, like a Wal-Mart on Black Friday.

But I fought off the crowds and bought some pot-infused gummies and a bag of THC-laced chocolate chip cookies. I also learned two interesting things during the experience.

First, the percentage of THC, the “active ingredient” that causes the high one gets from cannabis, is lower in marijuana that is permissible to legally sell for recreational use than it is for medical marijuana.

That’s actually fine with me, though. I just want a light buzz. I don’t need or want to get completely blitzed out of my mind.

But the second thing I learned was fantastic. The pot store offers a ten percent senior discount! Seriously? A senior discount for aging Baby Boomer stoners. Oh yeah!

Far out, man!

Win Some, Lose Some

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6478272A-E4AF-45C0-B6E5-C5C8B557431EYes, it’s early in the morning and I haven’t had my coffee yet and my eyes are not quite ready to work right. Apparently my brain isn’t either.

I say this because, when I first saw today’s one-word prompt, “winsome,” all I could think of was “win some, lose some.”

And that’s ridiculous because “winsome” is one word and “win some,” while having the exact same letters as “winsome,” is two words with a space separating “win” from “some.”

Further, the word “winsome” means sweetly or innocently charming. For example, “She has such a winsome look about her.”

Whereas the two words, “win” and “some” are what you want to do when you go to Las Vegas or engage in arguments.

Or it may be something you say to someone who just failed at something. Like to a lawyer who just lost a court case or a doctor whose patient died. ‘Sorry, pal, but as they say, you win some and you lose some.”

Or, when responding to the WordPress one-word prompt, “winsome.”

SoCS — Guns or Butter

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When I saw that today’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt from Linda G. Hill was to find a word that starts with “eco” or has “eco” in it and use it in a post, I immediately thought of my Amazon Echo. But then I realized that “echo” starts with “ech” and not “eco.” So it was back to the drawing board.

Then I remembered that I was an economics major in undergraduate school. Duh! You know, supply and demand, guns or butter, and stuff like that. What I liked most about economics courses in college were all the charts and graphs used to illustrate economics principles.

I love charts and graphs! Like the one below for supply and demand, which is an economic model of price determination in a competitive market.

1BF7503A-731B-4529-9FFC-AE07D7312E96Basically, the price of a good or service goes up when demand is high and supply is low and goes down when supply is high and demand is low. Makes sense, right?

And then there is the guns or butter model, which demonstrates the relationship between a nation’s investment in defense and civilian goods. It may buy either guns (invest in defense/military) or butter (invest in production of consumer goods), or a combination of both.

73B869BF-3878-40A0-B370-F558BA73DC8CThe more a country spends on its military, the less it has available to spend on goods and services for its citizens, and vice versa.

Okay, I know that you are totally bored by this discussion of basic economic theories. But don’t blame me. Blame Linda for this prompt. I’m sure my post about the Amazon Echo would have been considerably more fascinating.