Legal Pot = Less Criminals

Netherlands, where there are more cells than inmates. Wouldn't happen here.

The Game Hasn't Even Started Yet and...

That's the spirit!

Schooled.

LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!

Power Play! with Steve Waranauskas from WBEZ on Vimeo.

Dear Internet:

Please stop showing me pictures of face transplant pictures. Thankyouverymuch.

New Favorite Word: Unconsumption

I'm of frugal sorts.
I have trouble letting go
Of any sort of resource.
These are the people I meet.
It's a trend of sort.
Of reality, not perception:

Unconsumption means the thrill of finding a new use for something that you were about to throw away.

Wherein My Epic Dislike for Giuliani is Reinforced:

The Giuliani family proves the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

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My Alderman, Hard at Work...

...and in the NYT.

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[L]et’s not forget who these motherfuckers are: they are the people who spent most of the last decade and a half showering congressmen with cash in order to get the Bankruptcy Bill passed. That bill made it significantly harder for people to declare bankruptcy to get out from credit card debt so that they could keep their homes. A study by the New York Federal Reserve last year concluded that there are roughly 32,000 more foreclosures per month because of this bill than there would have been had the old bankruptcy laws remained in place. The study estimated that the bill resulted in about 400,000 additional foreclosures total since its inception.

Gee, you think that played a role in the financial crisis at all? Forgetting all the predatory practices that these people are known for, they were a major accomplice in the financial disaster — and now they’re fighting tooth and nail to keep Congress from forcing them to stop arbitrarily jacking up fees on consumers.

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The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new analysis. [...]

White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to say torture is often or sometimes justified — more than 6 in 10 supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it. Only 4 in 10 of them did.

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