I hate when that happens

New York legalized “recreational” marijuana yesterday, joining a national trend that is a prominent example of how badly cultural conservatives are losing various long-running culture wars.

This has brought forth various cautionary tales from right wing media luminaries, such as Newsmax star Greg Kelly:

Back in the day I once ate an entire Hostess cherry fruit pie (remember those?), and found myself overwhelmed by an irresistible urge for another hit of pure synthetic sugar, so I went out and scored a copy of Billy Joel’s “Just the Way You Are.”

Sometime later I woke up in a pool of my own sick, and I curled up into a little ball and didn’t move for three days. Then it suddenly occurred to me that the whole Earth is just a tiny speck of dust floating in an almost infinite meaningless void, and I felt somewhat better.