Drugs are Bayyyad

I was looking in the local paper, trying to get information about an associate of an associate who was shot to death in their home over the weekend. I couldn't find anything, but this public service message caught my eye:

Police Report Rash of Bad LSD Trips

It started on April 18, when officers responded to a residence to help Ambulance personnel with a 31-year-old man who had just castrated himself. Medics and officers couldn't find the man's testicles, according to APD, and he later told police that he'd flushed them down the toilet because they contained “monsters.”

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And the rain she's still a pourin' down. On Sunday I made four trips to the hospital, not arriving home to stay until after 2 a.m. on Monday. That would be tiring enough, but... A lot of the time I feel honored to witness people welcoming new life, a new sprout on the family tree, new moms exhausted but empowered by running the gauntlet that is birth and emerging on the other side. But chance is not always kind, and those times can be bad. I've managed to get one plant into the soil with each sunny day, though. Little by little, and I know summer will be here soon.

Lost Finale

At first, I have to admit that I didn't get it. Then, when I understood, I was just happy that I understood. Now, I'm kinda disgruntled. I thought one of the big questions of Lost is materialism vs. faith. Is the island a magical place or just a really weird one? Is there a greater purpose to obeying Jacob, no greater purpose to obeying Jacob, or is Jacob just a figment of the imagination?

Some of these questions were answered before the finale, I know. Jacob is obviously an entity with a plan and a purpose, for example.

I thought the sideways world was an alternate timeline made possible by the bomb going off, that Jack had succeeded even though he'd believed he'd failed, a timeline in which Jacob/the island had not interfered with their lives at critical moments, not least because the island was 'swimming with the fishes'. The plane did not crash, Sawyer did not pursue revenge, Jin and Sun did not get married, etc. Jacob told all the candidates that he had brought them to the island because they needed it in their lives, that they had been unable to create fulfilling lives without it/him. But, he had played a key role in the way their lives had unfolded.

Now I feel kinda meh that the sideways world was a either:

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