This same law was used in 2004 to bar state AG’s from oversight that could have prevented the recession. What good is a laboratory of democracy when the labs are neutered?

ok that’s definitely mixing metaphors

On the brighter side, we do get the official end of slavery with the 14th Amendment declaring all people born in the United States deserve

equal protection under the law

progress?

which was quickly used 20 years later to justify

corporations as “legal people”

This paved the way for the concept of these “limited liability” creatures to completely infect civic life,

just as we were running out of continent and headed towards

RISKY USE

or actual bona fide empire.

I, uh, I’ll be in the bathroom. for a while…

Yup, 1872-1920 now, changes in behavior around one’s habit due to increased tolerance. You ok in there? My friend, she’s 23 to 25 around this time. She told me that people overdose because they try to stop and then forget their tolerance and take too much. I don’t know if she actually ever overdosed, never told me that.