Last week’s winner was mlc1us . The correct location was in Kent, WA , where a woman was saved from being crushed by a car because of her decision to add more cheese to her chili . My in-laws live right near there and sent me this picture from on the ground. As I mentioned last week, ...

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- While the marijuana bills in the State House were voted down last week, the decriminalization bill is still alive in the Senate. - The Cannabis Defense Coalition got the third set of documents from the Public Disclosure Requests from the Department of Corrections. I’ve updated the i...

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A few drug war items of note: - Yesterday, KUOW’s The Conversation took on the topic of marijuana legalization . State Representative Roger Goodman was a guest, as well as State Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Ethan Nadelmann from the Drug Policy Alliance, and Dave Rodriguez of the Northwest H...

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Via Attackerman , I see that John Hannah, a former aide to Dick Cheney, is still scratching his head about what went wrong in Afghanistan: Ever since last year’s presidential campaign , there’s been an unfortunate tendency to assess America’s Afghan campaign as one long, steady...

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In the wake of the Obama Administra tion’ ;s declaration that the federal government would respect state medical marijuana laws, Kirk Johnson in the New York Times reported the following : For years, since the first medical marijuana laws were passed in the mid-1990s, many local and state g...

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Earlier this week, the New York Times unloaded some big news about Afghanistan: KABUL, Afghanistan â€" Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, an...

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In an article in New York magazine, a man operating a small business in New York City made this startlingly honest confession: I hate to say it, but there’s no way I’m hiring a black guy to work for me. Is this a good indication of how racism still significantly affects our society and con...

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With the events of this past week, it seems appropriate to link to this old post from five years ago that got my old blog reload noticed by The Stranger . In the beginning of the post, I wrote: I remember in high school, my good friend and I used to talk about going to a place like Kansas one ...

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