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Archive for March 24th, 2008

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Another Liberal I’d Vote For Because He Shows Signs of Sanity on the Drug “War”

By Mona
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Barney Frank To File Bill Legalizing Marijuana
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Sure, even in the very unlikely event it is passed, the Lord would tell Bush to veto it. But to have it introduced now is a good thing. The more this happens, the more politicians feel it is politically safe to take baby steps toward [...]

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Megan threw a party at the short bus stop

By Thoreau
Megan McArdle has at least half of a decent point: You often learn more from failure than from success, so maybe it does make a certain amount of sense to ask people to examine what they got wrong. But (1) she’s wrong to dismiss the value of “What I got right” retrospectives” [...]

Monday, March 24th, 2008

*extends thumb and pinkie, puts them up to mouth and ear like phone, mouths “Call me!”*

By Thoreau
The Onion has a run down on possible McCain running mates.  Although I’m not a McCain fan, I find myself cheering for this possibility:
Hip, young blogger: To attract hip, young blogger voters.
I mean, who wouldn’t want to be a 4th branch?  As dangerous as McCain is, wouldn’t America be safer with me in the [...]

Monday, March 24th, 2008

OTR

Next up, scenic Dekalb IL!
Will probably blog some beginning tomorrow.