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DEA and the IACP demonstrate that the drug warriors have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
Archive for October, 2010
October 30th, 2010
Category: Watching Conservatives
No, the miserable SOB didn’t actually call for the murder of Julian Assange.
October 30th, 2010
The polling for Tuesday looks grim, and it’s probably right. But it might be wrong. So brace yourself for a bad night, but don’t despair.
October 28th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Admittedly, it’s not an even trade. Still, it’s good to know that as an insane right-wing party gains power in the U.S., its Italian counterpart seems to be losing it. Even complete control of the airwaves may not be enough to keep Berlusconi afloat.
October 28th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Hard to make me feel sympathy for Christine O’Donnell, but Gawker gets close with its publication of an anonymous screed – complete with an unflattering physical description – claiming to be from a man O’Donnell picked up for a one-night stand. Note that any candidate is vulnerable if the ground rules allow this sort of [...]
October 28th, 2010
Category: Drug Policy
Mark Twain wrote of “vagrant opinions, living with no visible means of support.” There’s a lot of that going around.
October 28th, 2010
Category: Intellectual disability
More human consequences of the state budget crisis
October 27th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
The police are interested in talking to the two males (you can’t really call them *men*, can you?) who held down the victim while Rand Paul county co-ordinator Tim Profitt stomped on her head.