Birmingham Mother Shot and Killed While Holding Infant In Birmingham, Alabama, Sherri Williams, of Birmingham died on her sofa still holding her son. A stray bullet meant for someone else ricocheted and hit Williams as she watched from the doorway of her home, holding her ten-day old son. The April 2013 shooting still has neighbors […]
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Egelko on Kelly and the SB420 Debate: The Legal Haiku of Thresholds and Ceilings
This morning Bob Egelko has a pretty good writeup in the SF Chronicle about the grant of review in People v. Kelly, the medical marijuana quantity limits case, and also about the way the medical marijuana community has been split over whether the quantity limits established by SB420/the Medical Marijuana Program are a good or […]
READ MOREProhibition Should Have Taught America That Morality Can’t Be Legislated
The ink was barely dry before American history took a change. Before the day was over, to people would be killed, lives upturned and persons would go to prison for something that was legal 24-hours before. Prohibition in America was a nationwide attempt to legislate morality through banning anything to do with alcoholic beverages. Production, […]
READ MOREThe War on Drugs: The Band
It must be Friday, because I’m exhausted and I’ve spent the afternoon listening to music instead of doing anything remotely productive. Too bad I have to work tomorrow. At any rate, my afternoon of aimless music listening did manage to turn up one interesting thing: The War on Drugs, the band. There’s something Dylanish about these […]
READ MOREGonzales v. Raich One Year Later: Federalism Only When It’s Convenient
(Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts related to the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Gonzales v. Raich, which takes place Tuesday. See the link at the end of the article for the prior pieces.) What Gonzales v. Raich was about, a year after it was decided, ultimately depends […]
READ MOREFriday Music July 11, 2008
Here’s a pretty interesting, great-sounding (and nearly 10-minute-long, be warned…) video of Earth, the band that was once upon a time a sludge/drone metal pioneer. They seem to be going in some wonderful directions and opening up the sound quite a bit, even though the tempos are still very, very, very slow. Their website also […]
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