Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
A friend who doesn’t pay much attention to law and politics asked me what would happen if he had a marijuana plant in his house.  Here’s the answer I gave him:

Masked men with guns would break down your door.
They would confiscate your assets.
They would drag you away in front of your family.
They would lock [...]

By Thoreau
I’ve been skeptical of our mission in Afghanistan for a while.  Well, the US government has decided that since we aren’t losing badly enough already we should up the ante and send the DEA, which has a decades-long track record of losing the War on Drugs.
Whatever it is that we can/should accomplish in Afghanistan, [...]

By Thoreau
There is a dangerous and highly addictive drug that far too many Californians smoke every day. I’m referring, of course, to tobacco. News reports indicate that Schwarzenegger will not consider increasing the tobacco tax to plug the budget deficit. I’m curious what our readers think of this. As dangerous as [...]

By Thoreau
Our Finest News Source is now owned by a Chinese company.

By Thoreau
I’ve often complained that science bloggers focus so much on academia as The Path. Well, Chad Orzel has decided to do something about that, launching a series of posts where he interviews scientists working outside academia.