Author: Mark Draughn
Scattershot 2009-10-23
Random shots around the web: Don’t mess with Texas. Or Texas’ pecans. When you’ve made the sale, quit talking. Remember when I called Money Laundering a fake crime? Sound like we should hire casino security experts to do the TSA’s job. Read more
Obama Keeping His Medical Marijuana Promise?
This sounds like good news: Federal drug agents won’t pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama administration. It’s about damned time. Read more
Scattershot 2009-10-16
Random shots around the web: Lousiana justice of the peace Keith Bardwell just denied a marriage license to an interracial couple. Money quote: “I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way.” No cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security recipients this year, presumably because their cost of living has not gone… Read more
Of Health Insurance and Hunger
I really don’t understand healthcare reform. People keep saying that one of the biggest problems with our current system is that about 45 million people don’t have health insurance. There are reasons why that number doesn’t tell the whole story, but I can understand why people are concerned. What I don’t understand is how any… Read more
5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do
Found this posted in a comment from Jonathan C Hansen over at Simple Justice and I think it makes a lot of sense. Of course, I don’t have children, so take my advice with a grain of salt. Read more