Month: August 2005

I live in Philly. Most of you know that. If you want to know why I live in Philly, well this pretty much sums it up: “We got priced out of Manhattan, and we moved to Brooklyn,” said John Schmersal, 32, of the...

Crossposted at dKos This week, as always, I have been doing a lot of reading on Cannabis related subjects. I no particular order here is a sampling of what I have been reading. There was this little gem from August 10th at DEA...

On August 11, 1965, police in Los Angeles arrested a man named Marquette Fry, along with his brother and his mother, sparking the infamous Watts riots.  The violence lasted six days, leaving 34 dead and 1,000 injured. The...

The Atlanta-Journal Constitution is running a story concerning an American Civil Liberties Union suit in filed in federal court in Atlanta, Thursday that–according to the article–seeks to "end prayer that...

This one goes out to all the rebels…the renegades, the outcasts….the iconoclasts, the trail blazers, the visionaries and those we thought had lost their way…only to find that they had gone out so far in advance...