intarTrode

So is that an admission of being addicted to amphetamines?

Have y'all considered that so many toothless vagrant crystal meth cooks found their origin in a childhood plied with ritalin, because their parents wanted them to get straight A's, and that their "hyperactivity" was really an expression of legitimate boredom, stewing in a cesspool of tepid, understimulating public school curriculum.

Programming is boring, solitary work. On drugs though, our imagination conflates all the special things we're doing.

I bet there's a feeling of laziness that creeps in, and feelings of unproductiveness without the amphetamine cocktail. I wonder if we'll research how crystal meth is made in the home if the supply runs low.

Welcome to addiction.

Weekly magazines often appear in doctors offices and in mailboxes of consumer home subscriptions many days before their ascribed "newstand date." (newsweek, time magazine, national geographic, the economist... )

Note the qualifier "ISSUE," which would hint that it's not a daily.

For weeklies, editors probably have their print runs prepped for the publishers a few weeks in advance, with some variable slots left ambiguous for flexibility, in case they want to pre-empt a soft story with significant breaking news.

This piece doesn't seem to be a run up of current events, like the latest Trump tweets or whatever active shooter incident du jour. It's really a research piece that probably took several months to compile, edit and sweeten. Figure the broad strokes and the idea of the article were crafted over the summer, maybe.

Like I'd even want one.