Dear Mr. Harsanyi, I read your article about marijuana legalization and think you should take the issue more seriously. Everyone recalls the tragic death that occurred last year when a bale of marijuana fell on a Colombian worker who was supporting three children. This proves that marijuana kills. My own story is [...]
Marijuana should be removed from criminal statutes and be placed under a system of civil regulation. There are two basic reasons for this. The first is that marijuana was erroneously placed in the same category as dangerous substances. The second is that the regulations are far more harmful to both society and the individual than [...]
You better be careful of the job you take, it might affect your life. It took Obama two years of job applications and cajoling his future employers to get the presidency. The job includes never having to use your wallet or a credit card, free food, free housing, chauffer service, health care, all expense paid [...]
Sleeper cells and agents out in the cold are all a part of the story of Bernard Madoff. Early in his life he was intrigued by and eventually indoctrinated in the philosophy first of SDS and then of the Weather Underground He decided then that he would do his part to bring the ruling class [...]
The San Francisco Commonwealth Club recently hosted a debate on whether Bush was the worst President in the last 50 years. A friend of mine said they could have extended it to the last 100 years when he heard about the discussion. Where I live, in the San Francisco/East Bay Area, it’s pretty safe to [...]
Last week, my assistant Angela and I went to visit a semi-research garden experimenting with LED lights. The fellow had several differant arrays of lights, each with a different group of spectrums of bulbs. Unfortunately the lights weren’t placed in an orderly manner, so there were light hotspots and coolspots. In another area, he had [...]