Money and Success Still Don’t Buy Happiness
Not always, anyway. For instance, let’s say that you founded a company that makes a wildly popular anti-virus program for personal computers and eventually sold the company for $100 million dollars. You move to Belize. And then . . .
John McAfee, the estranged founder of the antivirus firm that bears his name, is wanted by the Belize police in connection with a murder, FoxNews.com has confirmed.
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McAfee’s life has turned in recent years from cybersecurity to drugs, guns, prostitution and violence, explained Jeff Wise, a freelance reporter who broke the story for Gizmodo. “He will tell you he moved to Belize for the good life, for the country, to rescue the Belizean people from poverty,” Wise told FoxNews.com. In reality, McAfee became embroiled in bath salts and the quest for the ultimate high, he said.
I had never even heard of “bath salts” until the cannibal incident in Florida earlier this year.
I don’t smoke pot but I am in favor of legalizing it. Not so much with the ‘harder’ drugs out there.
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on 13 Nov 2012 at 9:37 am # comatus
Doesn’t it seem that there is always some new drug at the top of the pile that renders yours un-legalizable? I’m developing an expensive tin-foil habit. This is going to get out of control, and we’ll be lucky to keep Old Overholt and Camels.
Well at least he didn’t get a virus. “Embroiled in bath salts,” a gimme News of The World headline if I ever saw one, is no way to go through life, son. He’s with Elvis and the monkey-boy on the UFO, now.
on 13 Nov 2012 at 3:42 pm # James Nelson
I don’t see any societal damage from any drug that even comes close to the damage that has been inflicted on this country by the “War on Drugs”.
on 13 Nov 2012 at 9:07 pm # Zendo Deb
I just don’t get the War on (some) Drugs. The Right claims to be in favor of personal freedom, and personal responsibility, except when it comes to things they don’t like.
It is OK to pump kids full of tranquilizers or whatever kind of psychoactive chemicals to keep them calm in schools that have for the most part gotten rid of recess, and eliminated anything that might be “dangerous” play. But that is for their own good.
But can’t let an adult consume what they want. (Ohio and few other states limit the alcohol content of beer - it is for your own good!)
on 14 Nov 2012 at 5:20 pm # Jeff
Deb, I agree. The Right is as hypocritical as the Left. The Right claims to want small government that gets out of the way but then wants (by law) to have it regulate our every move be it in the bedroom or at the ‘alter’ or whatever we ingest by way of drugs. And, of course, when they were in power they were pretty good at spending our tax dollars, too.
The Left prattles about free speech but try it (as a conservative) on any college campus or MSM pundit show and see how far you get without protests. Oh, and it’s the Obama administration that has the DoJ cracking down on medical marijuana outlets in California and soon to be elsewhere. So much for their hypocrisy about freedom of anything. And, they’re pretty good at trying to regulate our food and soda size, too.
Ohio limits beer alcohol content? Guess I’ll never move there; I love malt liquors!
Regardless of party affiliation, all politicians (local, state, federal) are only interested in one thing: Power. Power OVER the People.