Some recent media coverage has treated the latest flare-up between Israelis and Palestinians as a tit-for-tat battle: a kidnapping for a kidnapping, an air strike for a rocket. This piece cites the conflict and rockets fired by Palestinians as the reason for shutting down a local airport. But as more and more news agencies report, […]
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Posted inDrugs
In Defense of Maureen Dowd Getting Too High and Writing About It
Lots of people on the internet are mad—imagine that, people on the internet are mad!—about a Maureen Dowd column in yesterday’s New York Times. Dowd was in Denver covering Colorado’s new legal pot industry when she ate part of a pot-infused candy bar and had a pretty common experience: She got way too high. When […]
Posted inCannabis
The Ideal Legal Joint: Low in Potency, High in Flavor
A Product We Want from the Pot Industry
MY OLDER BROTHER Michael was the first person to get me stoned. I can’t remember most of the stuff we talked about that evening because, uh, I was superstoned. But I do recall one thing he said: “When pot is legal, they will sell a strain of marijuana that is high in flavor—but low in potency.” […]
Posted inGun Club
Because the Gun Lobby is Evil
This chart shows how the gun lobby ramped up spending to lobby for less gun control immediately after a nutcase with guns—cheap, easy to obtain, and poorly regulated—murdered 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year: $ spent on gun policy lobbying has skyrocketed in the year since #SandyHook: http://t.co/BCf8o7XuTo @SunFoundation pic.twitter.com/d2intLwxQ5— ProPublica (@ProPublica) […]
Posted inDrugs
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Is Sorry He Was Anti-Pot
The chief medical correspondent for CNN has used his influence for years to argue that marijuana is bad, bad, bad and it should be illegal, illegal, illegal. Dr. Sanjay Gupta even wrote this piece for Time a few years back called “Why I would vote no on pot.” Basically, marijuana was so unhealthy, he argued, […]
Posted inGay Marriage
Supreme Court Strikes Down DOMA!
SCOTUS Blog reports from the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that the Defense of Marriage Act, which bans federal recognition of same-sex marriage, “is unconstitutional as a deprivation of the equal liberty of persons that is protected by the Fifth Amendment… DOMA singles out a class of persons deemed by a State entitled ot recognition and […]
Posted inPolitics
YEEEEAH! Watch Wendy Davis Try to Filibuster Texas’s Godawful Abortion-Restriction Bill
Today is the cutoff for the Texas legislature’s special session. It’s also the final day of the session to pass a bill, which was jammed through by the Texas senate’s large conservative majority, to severely restrict abortion rights. The bill would restrict all abortions after 20 weeks and place burdens that would effectively shut down […]
Posted inNews
Gay Marriage Ruling Will Come Tomorrow
The US Supreme Court will unleash its ruling in two monumental gay-rights cases within 24 hours. According to Chief Justice Roberts, SCOTUS Blog reports, “Tomorrow at 10 a.m. will be the last day and we will release all the remaining opinions.” The cases concern the Defense of Marriage Act (United States v. Windsor) and California’s […]
Posted inPolitics
ACLU Sues Obama Administration to Stop “Dragnet” Phone Surveillance
New York Times: The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its “dragnet” collection of logs of domestic phone calls, contending that the once-secret program — whose existence was exposed by a former National Security Agency contractor last week — is illegal and asking a judge to both […]
Posted inLGBTQIA+
Michelle Obama Actually Helped That Lesbian Protester
The entire internet is howling this morning about a “rude” and “boorish” lesbian protester who should run to her lesbian bedroom and bawl shameful lesbian tears after causing a ruckus while First Lady Michelle Obama was speaking at a fundraiser last night: Ellen Sturtz, who paid to attend the Democratic fundraiser at a private home […]
Posted inSports
NFL’s Adrian Peterson Comes Out
To oppose gay marriage: When the Vikings cut former punter Chris Kluwe in early May, there was widespread belief that part of the reason he was let go was because the team viewed him as a distraction. Kluwe is an outspoken supporter of gay marriage. Even though Kluwe’s now gone, the distractions might not be […]
Posted inMedia
Obama Has “No Apologies” for Spying on Reporters
Because the president can seize stuff from news outlets when he’s investigating a crime: Asked to address the controversial seizure of phone logs from Associated Press journalists by the Department of Justice, President Barack Obama on Thursday said he had no regrets for prosecuting individuals responsible for leaking classified information because they placed the country […]