Mark Kleiman discusses the idiocy that passes as thought at the NY Times regarding the use of hallucinogens in research, and it occurred to me how truly wrong all of our nation’s conventional wisdom is regarding drugs. It appears that almost everything we think, do, or fear regarding drugs is just ass-backwards, and we owe …
Archives for January 2005
The Daily Dump
Andy’s idiocies are coming so fast and so consistent I may have to make up a new category for him. At any rate, check out this whopper: Jonah Goldberg notes that Martin Luther King Jr III (unlike his mother, Coretta) hasn’t endorsed equality in civil marriage. Jonah cracks: “I guess he’s a bigot.” What King …
It’s Just a Flesh Wound
What’s Ailing CBS News? Let’s Make a Not-So-Little List Van Gordon Sauter- Van Gordon Sauter was president of CBS News in the early 1980s and until recently was chairman of the California Boxing Commission. What’s the big problem at CBS News? Well, for one thing, it has no credibility. And no audience, no morale, no …
Social Security
If you have noticed, I have not written about social security reform, and there is a reason for this- I don’t care, really. I think there is nothing wrong with me investing in personal funds, but if not, I am willing to accept that I may or may not see a return on my money …
The Daily Dump
Andy engages in some recreational Bush bashing, swings, and hits himself in the face: This quote might help clear up some misunderstandings about president Bush. It certainly helped me see the world as he sees it. For Bush, accountability in government is a total, once-every-four-years thing. Individual mis-steps or mistakes are not subject to accountability …
King’s Legacy
I wonder how MLK, an advocate of nonviolence, would feel about being used as a political weapon every year: In his first high-profile address since conceding the presidential election, Senator John F. Kerry used Boston’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. memorial breakfast yesterday to decry what he called the suppression of thousands of would-be voters …
The New ‘New’ Plan to End Poverty
The UN has released a ‘new bold and sweeping’ plan to reduce poverty. Predictably, political and social reform are completely avoided in the document. What, then, is the plan? The report says drastically reducing poverty in its many guises – hunger, illiteracy, disease – is “utterly affordable.” To fulfill this goal, industrial nations would need …