Not that this is the sort of cheerfulness anyone probably *wants* to be reading on a Friday night, but alas, at this point I'm pretty sure an uninformed populace = a doomed populace, I'd rather *not* just watch the world die and do nothing, and now is when I have time/energy to post this . . . (whether this is doing anything adequate is a whole ( Read more... )

(1) The South Carolina DA who took the time to hunt down people in the Michael Phelps !!!OMG!!!! Marijuana!!!! video and arrest them. And apparently wants to arrest Phelps. Dude, even if you sincerely believe marijuana *should* be illegal and is somehow more harmful than cigarettes or alcohol and have no issues w/prohibition and the moronic " ( Read more... )

I doubt anyone reading this journal is a big Ron Paul supporter, but since he's increasingly gaining traction for having basically an overlapping set of virtues w/Dennis Kucinich but some vices Kucinich would never have in a million years (i.e. why you shouldn't be a Ron Paul supporter), I'd like to offer the following things about Paul that *never ( Read more... )