sangriaferret

I like this take but it relies on a critical analysis that isn't going to occur to most people. Most people aren't even aware up the word's racist origins.

I think calling it cannabis helps distance it from it's illegal past. There's a lot of more conservative people out there that still think of "marijuana" as something dangerous and criminal that is used by disreputable people. I think calling it "canabis" will help shed that negative connotation.

For the record, I call it "weed."

Absolutely. I saw them back in the day. A+ performance.

I was pretty into it when we were doing vans.

My dad was two of those things. Well, only two as far as I know.

Letter boxed accepted "shart" as a word today.

It's a little older than that.

Cinq

Eugene Debs, probably the most well known socialist in US history, ran for president while in prison.

I think what makes Kovacs so great is that he just did whatever the hell he wanted. Television was new enough where many of the tropes and conventions hadn't been established yet. Kovacs was free to create whatever came in to his mind. I wonder how differently TV would have developed if he hadn't died so early in his career.

Or "Electric Avenue"

I can't tell if that's supposed an insult or a compliment nor for whom.