[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Prop 19: Cops, Prosecutors, Law Enforcement Support Marijuana Legalization
- [Firedoglake - Michael Whitney]
In just the last several days, dozens of police officers, prosecutors, and other law enforcement officials have joined forces to endorse California’s Prop 19 to legalize marijuana. Led by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, the mostly former officials say that marijuana prohibition only fuels more dangerous crime by enriching Mexican drug cartels who put guns on American streets.
- Build Your Ed-Tech Startup With Help from the Kauffman Foundation
- [ReadWriteWeb - Audrey Watters]
The application deadline is September 20, 2010. Selection, workshops, and training run from November 2010 through May 2011.
- Ubuntu-Certified Hardware List
- Ubuntu-certified hardware: "We work with all the top hardware providers to make sure Ubuntu runs on your favourite devices. The hardware below has all been awarded the status of Certified, Enabled, or Ready for Ubuntu."
- The haunting beauty of abandoned playground rockets
- [io9 - Charlie Jane Anders]
- The stupid or evil debate surges after primaries
- [Pandagon - Amanda Marcotte]
Christine O’Donnell winning in Delaware for the Senate Republican nomination and Carl Paladino in New York for the gubernatorial Republican nomination. Both aren’t just wacky…they’re cinematically wacky. O’Donnell went on MTV in the 90s… to explain why masturbation is evil. [video]
My favorite part of that has to be towards the end, when she asks, and I quote, “If he already knows what pleases him, and he can please himself, why am I in the picture?”
…[Perhaps] this is just a tidal wave of anger at the Republican establishment, and …the Tea Partiers brainlessly voted for anyone that wasn’t the party-backed candidate to register their displeasure. This narrative puts the teabaggers in the position of being a bunch of dupes, but it springs them from the moral responsibility for voting for someone who liked to pepper his mass forwarded emails with pimp jokes, vicious racial slurs, and misogynistic porn… [links]
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