Describing something as a social construct and then dismissing that as meaningless is fucking stupid.

Nearly everything that humans care about, everything that defines their lives, is a social construct.

Gender, money, art, happiness and the pursuit thereof, love, success — every damn last one a social construct.

Social constructs are the analogues of physical laws, but applied to the human phrenic space. These constructs can be bent a little and shaped from nascence to near adolescence, but once established in most people they are as strong as carbon steel.

Inspired by this post, which I was thinking about again today.

Hypocrite liberals, critical of the drug war but perfectly ok with taking away much-needed opioids from chronic pain patients in the name of morality.

Over-prescribed? Maybe. But I’d rather err on that side than consigning millions of people to debilitating pain and thus condemning them to an existence bounded by constant agony.

As with abortion and reproductive rights, your morality and sanctimony should stop at someone else’s body.

Increasingly likely that Trump will be president.

Think he’s pretty much a shoo-in if it ends up being Trump vs. Clinton. No one is passionate about Clinton, not even her supporters — and millions of misogynistic freaks will turn out just to vote against her.

It’s going to be an interesting few years.

Let’s hope the Repubs pull some convention shenanigans and shoot themselves in the face.