Word: opiumeators
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...Consider the Orange Code, a manifesto of sorts penned by Kuhlmann and chief operating officer Jim Kelly, which includes lines like "We aren't conquerors. We are pioneers." Kuhlmann rants about spend-happy Americans and the companies that feed their addiction by selling them credit cards--"the opium of consumerism." When the rest of the banking industry lobbied for a new bankruptcy law in 2005 to make it easier for lenders to go after people struggling to pay their bills, Kuhlmann held a press conference with Senators Ted Kennedy and Russ Feingold to say the law would hurt ordinary people...
...back in the womb where you won’t have to have any motherfucking fun? To be on the cutting edge of rage, don’t bother drinking before you have a paper to write. Go straight for the good stuff: I write all my papers on opium, and I haven’t looked back since. This one time, I wrote a paper on the opium wars, and I was high on—you guessed it—GHB. I kind of wish I had been on opium for that...
...been a key figure, over the past two years, in uniting a rag-tag mix of indigent opium farmers, hardened Islamic fighters and bandits into an effective insurgency that has stretched NATO's resources. "After the fall of the Taliban, all the Taliban escaped to different areas, and he was the only one to marshal them and bring them together as a cohesive force," says Waheed Mujda, author of a number of books about the Taliban...
...Part of why children’s literature is so appealing is that it retains elements that adult literature has lost. In children’s literature one is free to indulge in pure escapism to another world, whether it be in a wardrobe or an opium den in Bristol. The adult fixation on children’s literature is simultaneously nostalgia for the past and a desire to mold the future. And for some it’s just a good read. —Staff writer Madeline K.B. Ross can be reached at mross@fas.harvard.edu...
...sense of awe, than of the faithful. "The fanatical atheists," he wrote in a letter, "are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who--in their grudge against traditional religion as the 'opium of the masses'-- cannot hear the music of the spheres...