Month: March 2012

Eric’s recent article God Bless Pat Robertson, the article it linked to Pat Robertson Blames Liberals for Drug War and Overincarceration, and this New York Times article Drug Policy as Race Policy: Best Seller Galvanizes the Debate suggested by the Drug Policy Forum of Texas list got me to thinking. What has mass incarceration wrought…

Those are words I never thought I would utter, much less here. But the fact is that Pat Robertson has come out against locking up marijuana offenders. Reason‘s Mike Riggs has more, and calls Robertson’s remarks “heartening” even though he thinks they don’t go far enough. Personally, I wish Robertson had also pointed out that there…

I thought it might be useful to look at how illegal drug use/alcohol use/ “abuse” of prescription drugs correlates with PTSD. Here is what the Department Of Veterans Affairs has to say: Anyone who has gone through a life-threatening event can develop PTSD. These events can include: Combat or military exposure Child sexual or physical…

While I can’t help watching it unfold on TV, I nonetheless don’t want to watch the very close Ohio primary. That’e because even though I’m anti-Santorum, I’m not for Romney. So I have been amusing myself by flipping back and forth between CNN and Fox, and I have noticed a pattern that neither would admit,…

to stop sniffing glue OTOH, hey, my candidate is STILL winning…

I recently learned that while “Facebook can tell you if a person is worth hiring,” taking into account a potential employee’s religious views may be problematic: Employers can discriminate against potential employees who seem like bummers based on their Wall postings and interests, but will get into trouble if what the Facebook user has said…

From the Drug Policy Forum of Texas e-mail list: Based on true case synopsis: Houston based drug-addicted attorney Mike and his business partner Paul take on a case involving an emergency room nurse who has been pricked by an infected needle. Uncovering a web of corporate conspiracies, Mike and Paul quickly find themselves outmatched. From…

Laura Ingraham is waiting for Obama: Ed Schultz called me a slut last May…still waiting for Obama’s call. Apparently, the president only cares about women being called sluts when lefty activists are called sluts by right wing commentators. If the roles are reversed, then it’s just fine. How very presidential of him. Such gravitas. MORE:…

That’s what the article says. And to prove their point, they have a painful picture. Assuming that they’re both female, the image is enough to turn many a gay man straight, which is a pretty painful idea in itself.  Is it gay, though? I don’t honestly know. If it is, then what are the consequences…

I’ve touched on this before, but I have a stubborn math question. What does “1%” mean? I thought it was a question of math (meaning those in the top 1% of American income levels), but I became a little suspicious when I saw that the OWS people liked Steve Jobs even though he was in…

Everybody talks about how the 1970s sucked. Including me. I thought it was a generally sleazy decade, and I lived through it. Fashion and art seemed to be on the decline, and we had Vietnam, Nixon (who was IMO unjustly maligned), then Ford, then Carter, and I guess the Ayatollah Khomeini. Ugh. Except I saw…

The saga of Sandra Fluke (now being painted as some sort of hero to women) is a perfect example of why we needed Andrew. Her testimony before Congress appears to have been very dishonest.  Fluke’s story about her friend who was denied birth control pills despite a medical need unrelated to contraception seems unlikely to be…

Well two different owls. Actually two different species of owl. The government is planning on killing one to save the other. And which will the government be killing off? The most successful. Like uh. What else is new? A 1-pound bird attributed to the demise of the logging industry some 20 years ago in the…

Today is the 165th birthday of Alexander Graham Bell. Considering that “Bell has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history,” you might think that he might rate a Google Doodle as Rossini did a a few days ago. But you’d be wrong. Perhaps Bell was too American for comfort. Anyway, I’m…

The other day I mentioned sluttiness in a post, and I supplied no context. I’m still struggling over the context of sluttiness, and I don’t want to get into moral judgments, not so much because I am against moral judgments, but simply because I don’t want to get into moral judgments. However, words do have…

I’ve warned about this sort of thinking before, but the people who want to control our lives and monitor our every move simply will not stop in their efforts to get rid of cash. They try to make it sound wonderful. Utopian: The fact is, we could become a cashless society within a very few…

I wrote The PTSD Party a while back and today in conjunction with this Breitbart video it got me to thinking. Why did Bill Clinton double (with efforts still rising) Prohibition enforcement during his tenure? He was a “head” while he was in school. Even if he claims he “didn’t inhale”. So he should be…

My fellow bloggers have put up memorials to Andrew Breitbart at The Death of a Titan and Andrew Breitbart, R.I.P.. Frank at the last post – always on top of things – suggested the above video. Thank you Frank. And thank you Andrew. I think there is a very good lesson here. I’m working with…

My friend Patrick Richardson has written an obituary of Andrew Breibart and asked me to if we’d run it.  I told him of course.  The obituary follows. — Sarah The Death of a  Titan by Patrick Richardson I awoke this morning to hear the sad news of the death of a titan. One of whom the…

I can’t believe that so much is being missed in the debate over “contraception” or “religious objections to contraception,” or even “sluttiness.” People are so into not getting it that it’s pathetic. While I touched on this in an earlier post, today I saw a link at Greg Mankiw’s blog to an article by John Cochrane…