Monthly Archives: December 2010

The day Westminster gave up on science by Ian Dunt Last week’s police reform and social responsibility bill contains a clause scrapping the requirement for the home secretary to appoint at least six scientists to the Advisory Council on the … Continue reading →

It’s important in a country like ours to have a mechanism to counter a grave injustice should one occur. In that light, the founders properly saw fit to vest the President of the United States with the power of the … Continue reading →

A very insightful article by Juan Gabriel Tokatlian in the Guardian (UK): The only winner in the ‘war on drugs’: The real effect of militarising drugs policy in Latin America has been to cement the hegemony of the US Southern … Continue reading →

There’s been a lot of controversy over the new TSA body scanners at airports that can “see” through clothing. Since it’s unlikely that they would even catch the kind of terrorist device that they are being installed at great expense … Continue reading →

ACLU sues Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills and Livonia over medical marijuana rules The ACLU is suing Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, and Livonia because, the ACLU says, the three cities have effectively banned medical marijuana, despite a state law approved by voters that … Continue reading →

Last time on Kids Say the Darndest Things, we had Shane Smith of TCU. Today, it’s Frannie Boyle at Vanderbilt University with Legalized marijuana? You must be high. Some really astonishing items in this piece. Legalization would cause use of … Continue reading →

Drug Czar Director Kerlikowske called attention to new information reporting the alarmingly high percentage of fatalities on America’s roadways involving drivers with drugs in their system. He called on communities to act immediately to prevent drug use before it starts … Continue reading →

I’m strongly in favor of the efforts of WikiLeaks to help create some transparency in our Government. Unlike the authoritarians that seem to dominate much of our media, many of whom appear to want to kill or imprison the leakers … Continue reading →

It really is pretty pathetic to continue to hear such this nonsense. This latest moron is Adam Yamaguchi in a promo at Huffington Post for Current TV’s Vanguard. My team decided to do this story after we’d come across a … Continue reading →

William Michael Smith at Houston Press has a delightful column: Willie Nelson’s Pot Bust: A Milestone In Marijuana Policy? We’ll bet Gov. Rick Perry’s anus puckered up tighter than an unfracked shale formation when some aide walked up and whispered … Continue reading →