Just the sort of thing a new president could change almost instantly-- but I can guarantee you that whoever is elected, she/he won't have the guts and will already be thinking about the second term-- you know, the "greater good."

I don't know how this is going to change because it's not simply irrational fear that real knowledge can overcome, it's all about who benefits from the criminalization of drugs.

Cool! Have to read/see this. College is for those of us who can't draw a straight line and whose great artistic talent would otherwise go unrealized.

Fantastic! The greatest adventure ever...

Who decided we'd all be better off if every aspect of our lives is examined and managed? 8 yr olds in handcuffs, grandmothers arrested for not moving their cars-- and nobody even seems to remember that as a nation, we used to be proud NOT to have to "carry papers?"

I offer up my favorite, as yet non-existent band name: Controversy Dogs.

This is from a headline I had to read more than once to get:
"Controversy dogs closed nuclear power plant."

Ah, the power of those Controversy Dogs!

This is exactly the conclusion drawn by Thomas Ricks in Fiasco-- a lesson learned and then forgotten after Vietnam now, finally (maybe) being learned in Iraq. But let us not forget that an unjust war well-prosecuted is still an unjust war.