Actor Zach Galifianaki was recently spotted smoking weed on Bill Maher’s show Real Time on Home Box Office, you know, that cable channel where they get away with saying the word “fuck.” It didn’t take long for somebody to post it to YouTube.
Legalizing marijuana appears to have broad support in the state, with some 56 percent of Californians saying they favor making it legal for social use and taxing the sales proceeds in a state with major budget problems. In October, Gallup found 44 percent of Americans favored legalization.
In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it – the present, that is to say, must have become the past – before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.
-Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Editor’s Note: I could say more, but this speaks for itself…
“I don’t want to live in a nation where I am in a hospital getting a treatment for $25,000 and a person just a few floors away is being denied the same treatment, because they have no money. What kind of civilization is that? What kind of moral order is that?”
-Bill Moyers, Real Time with Bill Maher
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It looks as though comedian Bill Maher has been reading this Website. Or perhaps as they say, great minds think alike : )
I’ve been advocating this position for years to eliminate the Bush deficit. In our recent review of Religulous, the hit movie that came out of an offshoot of one of his big routines over the years, we made it explicit. He didn’t in the movie. But he did on his HBO show Real Time on Nov. 14.
During the Bush years, we specialized in covering the politicization of the U.S. justice system as much as any news organization. Our archives are about the most comprehensive for anyone researching the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, and the original case against Richard Scrushy, which Glynn Wilson covered for The New York Times.
