Unqualified Offerings

By Mona
Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) proposes a Blue Ribbon panel to study (scroll down just a bit) whether the drug war makes sense or serves justice. Well now, we can’t have that, now can we? (All emphasis mine.)
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Press Release: U.S. Senate to Vote on Censoring Legalization Debate
Posted by LEAP [Law Enforcement Against [...]

By Thoreau
The Onion reports on the grim fate of having to see Glenn Beck live longer than one’s child.  I assume that next week their headline will be “Nobel Peace Prize winner sends flying killer robots to launch missiles at somebody other than Glenn Beck.”

By Thoreau
The administrators are quietly admitting that all of the current cuts in the name of “restructuring” are ways to make the university leaner for the long term, but will not save enough $ by August.  (We’ll leave aside, for now, the issue of whether restructuring a large organization actually saves much $ in practice, [...]