Yearly Archives: 2006

Legalization With Regulation: A Step Better Than Now

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Nevada residents have an opportunity in November to take a step to move closer to opting out of the dramatically failed war on drugs:

…we’ve spent billions of dollars, and marijuana is easier to get than model airplane glue.

Last year in Nevada, more people were arrested for marijuana possession than for all violent crimes combined. The burden on cops, courts and prisons is staggering. I’d rather see those assets used to hunt down real criminals, or the 10 people I see running red lights every day.

This isn’t personal. I’m not a marijuana user, and I don’t like being around people who smoke anything.

Legalization is simply the lesser evil: What we’re doing now doesn’t amount to much but a full-employment program for lawyers and cops.

It is only a small step but perhaps a necessary one. Real progress probably can’t be made until the major special interest groups that fuel the failed war are minimized. The Nevada proposal would appear to eliminate significant demand for police, lawyers, courts and prison space so should be a positive step.

Via RegulateMarijuana.org

Friday Ark #104

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We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….?

You can find out how to board the Friday Ark at the Arkive page (construction underway).

Note: Trackbacks from here to Typepad sites are returning a 500 message today.

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In Memoriam

  • aliment: Goodbye Fatty: Minou

Didn’t Make It

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Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map. (73 shouts as of 08/17)

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 129th edition, 9/10 is up at Begin Each Day. The 130th edition will be hosted by Justin’s Random Thoughts on 9/17. There are more weekly cats at eatstuff’s Weekend Cat Blogging which has many participants who may not be familiar to Ark or Carnival participants. Do go shout out at The Catbloggers Frappr Map.

Bird folks: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks. The 32nd edition is up and hosted by Sand Creek Almanac.The 33rd edition will be hosted on 9/28 by Don’t Mess With Taxes.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 12th edition is up at Sunbeams From Cucumbers . The 13th edition will be hosted September 30 by Deep Sea News.

For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat’s Carnival Page, The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Note for Haloscan Users:

Haloscan started (the end of July) rejecting trackbacks if they were submitted “too rapidly” by the same host. I don’t know what the timer is but it is long enough so that it was very difficult to ping everyone that is using Haloscan for trackbacks. I’m sure that they are doing this to try to hold back the tide of trackback spam but it makes the service pretty useless for carnival type posts. Perhaps you can contact them and urge some different solution. Update: Typepad appears to be doing the same thing. Everytime I update the Ark it appears the timers are reset and the long list of MT autogenerated pings fail. Yecchhhh….

Need to Avoid Blogging?

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Mrs Modulator found a wikiHow article on her Google homepage that provides some advice on dissuading oneself from blogging. Most of the article’s suggestions fit, well, they fit those they fit. That is, if you are going to follow them you are not going to blog and probably didn’t really want to.
There is one suggestion that we all should pay a bit of attention to whenever we start an activity or project:

Ask yourself if you really have the time to commit to a blog.

Be it blogging, Go, a treehouse, or any other project or pastime you are going to trade off some other activity. Make sure you trade off the right ones.

Need to remove a hickey? Or advise someone about hickey removal? Here’s the wikiHow article.