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Gay marriage, the predecessor to the “Ground Zero Mosque” in organizing moral panic among the unwashed, now has roughly 50% support nationally, and the trend is in the right direction.
Archive for August, 2010
August 21st, 2010
Category: Health and Medicine
Like many other people in the addiction field, I have been receiving media calls about Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen. I had to look up who Lindsay Lohan is (This is probably as good a moment as any to admit that I am neither young nor the owner of a television), and found I could [...]
August 21st, 2010
Category: Democratic Party, Leadership
Howard Dean: great party builder; lousy moral leader.
August 20th, 2010
Category: Religion and Politics
Karen Hughes can’t bring herself to denounce bigotry.
August 20th, 2010
The City of Maastricht is battling the European Union over whether it can prevent drug tourism by having “coffee shop” sales restricted to Dutch citizens. If the EU rules that Dutch coffee shops cannot deny cannabis sales to people from outside of the Netherlands, Maastricht may follow the lead of other Dutch border cities, which [...]
August 20th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
I’ll be on with Max Kellerman and Reihan Salam, talking about religion and politics in the context of the poll showing 20% of the voters think that the President is Muslim. (I hadn’t known, this, but apparently Colin Powell made my comment for me: “And if he were, would there be something wrong with that?”
August 19th, 2010
Category: Income distribution, Microeconomics and policy analysis, Moral philosophy, Spirituality and Religion, Strange world
The Seven Deadly Sins aren’t very deadly — and that’s a very good thing if you’re in the public policy business.
August 19th, 2010
Now that the Republicans have blocked climate change legislation, the administration has a change to ratchet up the pressure through litigation.
August 19th, 2010
Olives grown in hedges.
TSAWTD, chapter umptyump
One of my dreams is to meet the nitwit who thought a good way to load an airplane through a door at the front is front seats first. If things go well, it will be on an airplane, and I will have a heavy carry-on with sharp corners, which I will drop on his toes. [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 19th, 2010 at 12:02 am
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