Call Team America.
Gerry writes:
That was quick. Are we going to bomb Athens? Hummus eating surrender monkeys….
ψikęs.
Add this to Greece’s list of problems: It’s an emerging hub for terrorists (CNN)
Earlier: Greece Is The Word, Is The Place, Is The Motion
Meanwhile…
Jumbo-sized cape-wearing Greek vocal god Demis Roussos.
Demised.
Bono in an interview with Anderson Cooper describes Nelson Mandela as a “lesson in humility”.
He also talks about Archbishop Desmond Tutu, “The Arch”.
As you do.
Interview in full here.
Dr Sanjay Gupta.
CNN’s ‘dreamboat’ medic/reporter and a mainstream telly ally in the US ‘war’ on drugs.
Until NOW!
He writes:
Over the last year, I have been working on a new documentary called “Weed.” The title “Weed” may sound cavalier, but the content is not.
I traveled around the world to interview medical leaders, experts, growers and patients. I spoke candidly to them, asking tough questions.
What I found was stunning.
Long before I began this project, I had steadily reviewed the scientific literature on medical marijuana from the United States and thought it was fairly unimpressive. Reading these papers five years ago, it was hard to make a case for medicinal marijuana. I even wrote about this in a TIME magazine article, back in 2009, titled “Why I would Vote No on Pot.”
Well, I am here to apologise.
I apologise because I didn’t look hard enough, until now. I didn’t look far enough. I didn’t review papers from smaller labs in other countries doing some remarkable research, and I was too dismissive of the loud chorus of legitimate patients whose symptoms improved on cannabis.
…I mistakenly believed the Drug Enforcement Agency listed marijuana as a schedule 1 substance because of sound scientific proof.
Surely, they must have quality reasoning as to why marijuana is in the category of the most dangerous drugs that have “no accepted medicinal use and a high potential for abuse.”
They didn’t have the science to support that claim, and I now know that when it comes to marijuana neither of those things are true. It doesn’t have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, sometimes marijuana is the only thing that works…
Yikes.
More tobacco.
Perishing flip-flopping, cable news hippy.
More here: Why I Changed My Mind On Weed (Dr Sanjay Gupta, CNN)
Pic: CNN
CNN this morning.
Y, CNN, Y?
Then again…
We’ll Never Forget You, Mummer Gadafty
QuadaffyGate: Irish Times Defiant In Face Of Protests
(Thanks Gorugeen)
“Do you agree with [your pastor’s] statement that gays and lesbians should be put behind electrified fences until they die out?”
CNN’s Anderson Cooper – using almost supernatural restraint – interviews Baptist churchgoer Stacey Pritchard.
Well that’s that. No Dicks in Congress from now on.
(Thanks Baz Halpin)
Members of the American Dialect Society came out in record numbers to vote Friday night at the organization’s annual conference, held this year in Portland, Oregon.
“Occupy” won a runoff vote by a whopping majority, earning more votes than “FOMO” (an acronym for “Fear of Missing Out,” describing anxiety over being inundated by the information on social media) and “the 99%,” (those held to be at a financial or political disadvantage to the top moneymakers, the one-percenters).
Occupy joins previous year’s winners, “app,” “tweet,” and “bailout.”
