Author Archives: Pete Guither

Go to it.

I’m leaving for desolate areas of Iowa and western Illinois to help my parents celebrate their birthdays. My mom turns 85 on July 4 and my dad turns 85 on July 7. Part of the time, I won’t have internet, … Continue reading →

Scooter Libby is free. Richard Paey is in prison. President Bush said that Libby’s 2 1/2 year sentence was “excessive.” Richard Paey’s sentence is 25 years.

Am I dreaming? Joe Biden, sponsor of the Rave Act and inventor of the Drug Czar, is now positioning himself as a leader in crack/powder disparity reform. Everybody realizes that the crack/powder disparity is racist in its effect and is … Continue reading →

On July 12, the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime, will be holding hearings on DEA oversight. Apparently, an important part of those hearings will focus on the DEA’s involvement/interference with doctors treating pain, and some outstanding witnesses are being … Continue reading →

On PBS tomorrow (Tuesday, July 3) is the premiere of Standing Silent Nation by Suree Towfighnia and Courtney Hermann In April 2000, Alex White Plume and his Lakota family planted industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota … Continue reading →

Transform continues its excellent series (extracts from an upcoming publication) with a brief analysis of various types audiences reformers will end up against: Evangelical prohibitionists, Knee-jerk prohibitionists, Unconvinced reformers, and Prohibitionist politicians. There are some useful, and fun, descriptions there. … Continue reading →

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 →