“I once received a letter from an eminent logician … saying that she was a solipsist, and was surprised that there were no others.”
HeadSpace.com not only provides free, useful audio guides that assist me with 3- and 5- and 10-minute meditations, but the HeadSpace app also provides daily, insightful, written quotes that inspire me to stay centered and meditate more. “Thoughts appear in the mind like a rainbow in the sky, clear, bright, yet illusory. To see this […]
This opinion piece in The Week by Matthew Walther is so smart that I’ll preemptively say only this: When you attack someone (Trump) for everything, you attack him not at all. “Was anyone surprised by the recent CNN poll finding President Trump’s approval rating at 42 percent? … “The thousand undifferentiated scoops in the phantasmal Mueller investigation, the vicissitudes of his hundred shifting positions
In this roundup article in the Portland Mercury by Vince Sliwoski, an attorney with Harris Bricken law firm, he smartly reminds us that the veterans amendment was the last good marijuana amendment to receive a vote on the floor of the U.S. House … back in 2016. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-Dallas) single-handedly blocked all other
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What the hell. I moved to Austin in 2013, and Uber banned itself shortly thereafter, after losing a local referendum that sought to rescind the city council’s invasive regulations that the taxi commission had sought. (Uber has since re-legalized itself in Austin.) Now I’m lurking and working in Greece, and I read this headline in
It’s exciting when TV stars run for office, especially because the ones who get elected are indubitably wonderful — just terrific, fantastic — public servants. Cynthia Nixon vowed to fight for stricter gun-control laws, stand up for black voters, and support the legalization of marijuana in her first national TV interview since declaring her candidacy for governor of New York.
People are now dying from what’s being called “synthetic marijuana” — the worst-possible collateral damage from marijuana prohibition. If marijuana were legal, no one would resort to smoking stuff that’s essentially potpourri (no pun intended) sprayed with lab-made chemicals. “… mock marijuana that is spreading across Chicago and the central part of the state, causing
“It doesn’t matter which Democrat wins [the runoff election on May 22 in Dallas]. Either way, we’re going to un-elect him,” said Rob Kampia, the former executive director of MPP. Kampia’s new venture is the Marijuana Leadership Campaign and its companion Marijuana Leadership PAC. “Our invitation-only launch meeting was held in Dallas,” he told POLITICO Magazine, “and I can safely say we’ll be spending $500,000
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All state-based marijuana-policy organizations should be doing this kind of sophisticated voter guide. If you know of a non-Texas group that has done so in 2017 or 2018, could you please post links to such voter guides here? As they say here in Texas, god bless Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy, which includes such wonderful
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One year and one day after the convening of the 2017-2018 Congress, Attorney General Jeff Sessions finally did what everyone expected: He repealed the Obama Justice Department’s Aug. 2013 memo that essentially advised businesses in states with good marijuana laws how not to run afoul of the federal laws that prohibit marijuana absolutely. If there was
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On 1/26/2018, The Washington Post summarized casino magnate Steve Wynn’s reaction to the mob’s accusations against him: In a written statement, Wynn strongly denied the allegations, saying they stemmed from an ongoing divorce battle with his ex-wife. “The idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous,” Wynn said. “We find ourselves in a world