Paul McCARTNEY quit pot. What next - the KARDASHIANs quit having sex?!1 n/t

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1. Too late. Kim Kardashian is expecting another baby.

http://www.eonline.com/news/661691/kim-kardashian-is-pregnant-reality-star-expecting-second-child-with-kanye-west

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2. Yip. I've thought it odd that Paul's issue hasn't been a major topic in GD unless I missed it.

First, he's been part of the thematic spans for a lot of us -- like the KENNEDYs, LBJ/Vietnam, the BOND movies -- most of which have run their course. So his taking this step is something, no? Yet, it's not a popular something because at DU we have our legalization contingent, and his reason is that he (now?) considers it a bad example for his children and grandchildren. Uh. If it was kewl and harmless for the past 40 yrs, what is it now? And what about everybody else's children and grandchildren he has been a presence over all these years? I don't think GD wants to talk about this.

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3. I don't really see it as anything other than a father making a benign choic

"So his taking this step is something, no?"
I don't really see it as anything other than a father making a benign, personal choice for himself and by extension for his family.

"If it was kewl and harmless for the past 40 yrs, what is it now?"
Something he's chosen not to do.

It doesn't seem to rise the grand level of an Emphatic Statement of Morality on his part; merely a choice he's made.

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5. We can all choose to put any thought in any context we choose:

Context 1: The limitless nothingness.

Context 2: Biology, where all living things are equal organisms.

Context 3: Anthropology, where definitions are cultural artifacts.

Context 4: Philosophy/religion/morality.

Context 5: Superficial fame, fashion, and fads.



I would say that in #5, everything The Beatles did was magnified beyond just any one of their personal choice. At that level, I personally feel betrayed, like when Cher was totally bereaved when Sonny died after twenty years of telling us how controlling and despotic he had been to her and how free she was without him.

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4. Is Paul still a veterinairian ?