drat fink

public affairs

"For government to represent the interests of average people, public officials have to be liberated from their dependence on private interests to finance their campaigns. Doing that means going far beyond anything dreamt of in the watered-down McCain-Feingold bill sloshing its way through Congress, which closes one loophole (soft money) while widening the hard-money pipeline. That's why a little-noticed storm going on right now in the state of Massachusetts is so important."

tv land

is there anything more surreal than the idea of a cleaned up cheech marin doing a knock off clips show called funny flubs and screwups using bush campaign speech malaprops alongside outtakes from becker?

blame canada

Canada Moves Toward Legalizing Pot

buzz lightyear

Could McCain Make The Jump As Well?

x-ray specs

i guess glen jones is having his 15 minutes except its taking him a little longer.

no class

i just started getting my alumni magazine after about ten years. it took me a while to get them my fowarding address. in between all the notices for marriages babies and promotions is a notification for jane swift, class of 1987, which coincides with my days at trinity. so whats she doing? shes the govenor of freakin' massachusetts. i guess i can take umbrage in the fact that she wasnt elected to that post. yeah right.

golf clubbed

"WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The Supreme Court ruled today, in a case sure to be argued again and again in country clubs and saloons across the land, that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can ride in a golf cart rather than walk the course during PGA Tour events."

e-voter

Online campaigns - why the've been so poorly done, and how to run them right

jury of your peers

"The sentence had been imposed on Kubby in March after he was convicted of possession of minute quantities of psilocybin and mescaline -- charges which were a byproduct of a 1999 medical marijuana raid on his house. The medical marijuana charges were later dropped by the judge after a jury refused to convict Kubby or his wife, Michele."

price gouging

"A UN panel has accused Afghanistan's Taliban rulers of selling stockpiled opium and heroin to finance its war and train terrorists.

In a report to the Security Council, the panel questioned the sincerity of the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, in banning poppy cultivation last July.

They say that the large stockpile suggests that the Taliban only want to halt production to keep opium and heroin prices from plummeting.

Their report said: "If Taliban officials were sincere in stopping the production of opium and heroin, then one would expect them to order the destruction of all stocks existing in areas under their control."

The UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention reported that Afghanistan's opium production was about 2,500 tons in 1998; 4,600 tons in 1999 and 3,100 tons in 2000 which amounted to a sizable stock of opium and heroin.

The Security Council froze Taliban assets and imposed an international flight ban on Ariana airlines in November 1999.

The move was put pressure on the hardline militia to turn over suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden for trial over the US embassy bombings in Africa in August 1998."