Your Random-Ass Roundup: The Petraeus Affair Now Involves Olivia Pope. (Seriously.)
Congratulations, America: this Petraeus mess has now officially morphed into an episode of Scandal.
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Your Monday* Random-Ass Roundup: Heard 'Em Say
Believe it or not, I’ve been known to be a jackass. Ask anyone who had the misfortune of knowing me in college. Or a couple years ago. I really hope President Obama isn’t asked about it anytime soon: Anyway, lots of things have happened since our last Monday roundup. Here’s a few of them, a Read More
Good Lookin' Out?
Dr. Conrad Murray, now most famous as Michael Jackson’s doctor, told supporters today that he appreciated their support but couldn’t respond to their e-mails or phone calls in recent weeks because of all the scrutiny. So he posted a YouTube video. Because that’s better.
Billy Mays's Autopsy.
Cocaine. That explains everything. Don’t know how I missed this.
Your Monday Random-Ass Roundup: Acting Stupidly
Because of technical difficulties and an unusually busy work day, this almost became Your Tuesday Random-Ass Roundup. Sorry I’m late again. Your PostBourgie-approved weekend reading material: First things first, Stacia, one of our co-bloggers, is writing a novel and posting a chapter a day at her personal blog. What is this space for, if not Read More
Drug Decriminalization and Racial Inequality in Pop Culture.
Our homie Jeremy Levine wrote a paper for one of his doctoral courses called “Social Structure and Culture in the Study of Race and Urban Poverty” (which is led by the eminent sociologist, William Julius Wilson) that became a post over on his dope blog, Social Science Lite. He was gracious enough to let us Read More
Changing Strategies In "The War On Drugs."
Matt Yglesias has a good post on alternatives to the current “war on drugs” approach to policing: What we need is less emphasis on drugs and more emphasis on actual problems associated with drugs. For example, consider a town with two crack dealers. Dealer One sells twice as much crack as Dealer Two, but Dealer Read More
Coming Out of the (Cannabis) Closet.
Will Wilkinson has penned a particularly thought-provoking essay about marijuana: If we’re to begin to roll back our stupid and deadly drug war, the stigma of responsible drug use has got to end, and marijuana is the best place to start. The super-savvy Barack Obama managed to turn a buck by coming out of the Read More
Porn. Weed. Mom. Apple Pie.
Due to projected budget shortfalls and a deteriorating economy, states around the country are looking for new revenue streams, including from taxes on quasi-legal and illegal products like porn and weed. Their proposals are being met with varying results. “People came down on me like a ton of bricks,” said Mr. Miloscia, who proposed an Read More
High 5 (Rock the Blogosphere).
I haven’t spent much time on the blogs lately, and so I missed a ton of the hot fire the good folks at Pandagon have been spitting for the last few days. First, there is Amanda Marcotte’s great post on the huge discrepancy between the U.S. media’s reaction to Michael Phelp’s marijuana use, and the recent revelation that Mexico Read More
