Monthly Archives: June 2007

Link The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of this ruling: A seventh-grader from Vermont was suspended for wearing a shirt that bore images of cocaine and a martini glassÖbut also had messages calling President Bush a lying drunk … Continue reading →

Scott Morgan and Allan Erickson have already addressed this, but I wanted to comment as well. In this post by Clara Jeffery at MotherJones.com (which has some good points), there is a really uncalled for remark: As in so many … Continue reading →

“bullet” First: Bong Hits 4 Jesus – the game. The trick here is to guess not which ones you should suspend a student for, but which ones you are allowed to suspend a student for/censor, based on the recent Supreme … Continue reading →

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I didn’t watch this round of debates – Democratic candidates dealing with minority issues: U.S. Senator Joe Biden, U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton, U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd, former U.S. Senator John Edwards, former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel, U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich, … Continue reading →

The United States has 5% of the world’s population… … but 25% of the world’s prison population. We lead the entire world in incarceration rates. We even lead the world in actual numbers of those imprisoned So…, and I’m just … Continue reading →

“bullet” Transform Drug Policy Foundation has a wonderful chart showing the differences between (in general) the drug policy Status Quo position and the Reform position. Here are a few samples: Status Quo position Reform position Illegal drug use must be … Continue reading →

Time Magazine reports A Cease-Fire in Mexico’s Drug War? But not really. U.S. and Mexican officials confirm that Mexico’s major rival drug-trafficking organizations, the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels, “may be trying to negotiate a truce” and come to some agreement … Continue reading →

Jon Stewart, showing the banner Joseph Frederick held up on that snowy day at the Olympic torch relay, along with video of the large Olympic torch… “If Jesus had a bong, that is totally the lighter that He’d use.”