Read this. The War on Pot: America’s $42 Billion Annual Boondoggle

I realized today that I haven’t written one word about the war in Iraq, not counting emails and such, since it began. The reason I have abstained, I suppose, is that SO many other people have been talking about it already the whole time, so why should I? But I want to say at least [...]

As I sit at my computer on this fine April 20th (cough, cough), preparing to review Al Gore’s fine documentary/Power Point presentation (docupoint?) An Inconvenient Truth, it strikes me that most people have already either seen the film or they’ve been so inundated with hype they wouldn’t add it to their Netflix queue if you [...]

With everyone from the Terminator to Al Franken turning to politics, I can’t help but wonder why there aren’t more celebrities joining the ranks of the politically-inclined. There are the obvious options, the ones that I might actually vote for, like that lovable George Clooney and that sort-of-lovable Oprah Winfrey, but I’m more interested in [...]