From Denver Westword Blogs, Marijuana billboard for Amendment 64 touts Pat Robertson endorsement Money quote: Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, have turned plenty of heads via billboards near Mile High Stadium, with the first featuring a soccer-mom-type woman revealing her preference for cannabis and the second spotlighting a […]

I’ve been slacking with the interesting articles sharing lately. Let’s fix that. From The Raw Story: Global report: Decriminalization does not increase rates of drug use Money quote: The report, A Quiet Revolution: Drug Decriminalisation Policies in Practice Across the Globe, “looks at over 20 countries that have adopted some form […]

From Pandagon, Rejecting the “self-discipline” framework  Money quote: “Self-discipline” can’t really be extracted meaningfully in this debate from the concept of sin and punishment. Under the sin framework, gluttony is a sin, and the only proper response to sin is punishment. Therefore, if you accept the “self-discipline” framework, there is […]

From the hairpin, The Best Time I Took My Baby to the Emergency Room  Money quote: This is still a little too raw for me to really want to talk about it, but I got a bit of a guilt-nudge from yesterday’s post on criminalizing bad mothers. All parents do something […]

From Reason, Born This Way? Nature, nurture, narratives, and the making of our political personalities Money quote: The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor. Everyone loves a good story; every culture bathes its children in stories. Among the most important stories we know are stories about […]

From Rationalist International, Sanal Edamarku under attack for exposing Catholic “miracle” Money quote: On 10th March, Sanal Edamaruku flew to Mumbai. The TV channel TV-9 had invited him to investigate a “miracle” that caused local excitement. He went with the TV team to Irla in Vile Parle to inspect the […]

From Roger Ebert’s Journal at the Chicago Sun-Times, Hey kids! Anybody here not heard the F-word? Money quote: If a director wants to make a film against bullying, it is not for a committee of MPAA bean-counters to tell him what words he can use. Not many years ago, the […]

From The Guardian, Wired for Culture by Mark Pagel; Beyond Human Nature by Jesse J Prinz; Together by Richard Sennett – review Money quote: Central to his thesis is the fact that humans do not co-operate mindlessly, unlike other creatures that establish elaborate societies, such as ants and termites. In these […]

From Amnesty International News, Amnesty International Urges Stricter Limits on Police Taser Use As U.S. Death Toll Reaches 500 Money quote: On Monday, Johnnie Kamahi Warren was the latest to die after a police officer in Dothan, Al. deployed a Taser on him at least twice. The 43-year-old, who was […]