I found this infographic full of useful data, all pointing in one direction: We should legalize use of marijuana by taxing and regulating it. The current approach of subjecting users to the criminal justice system is destructive and immoral.
The Onion reports on a new model car that reduces the carbon footprint of the car's owner to zero.
What if you were a huge producer of coal, an extremely dirty fossil fuel that is a huge contributor to cooking planet earth? You'd likely change your name from "Peabody Coal" to something like "Peabody Energy." And you would never put a image of your dirty product on your building. You wouldn't want people to know the facts about huge ash pits that result from burning coal, and you would want people to know about the accumulation of toxic materials in those ash pits. And you'd probably be tempted to hide behind huge banners promoting ostensible charitable causes, including the United Way, whose President/CEO made more than $800,000 last year.
If you really had balls, you'd start a campaign calling the dirty coal you produced "clean coal," even though this claim of "cleanness" is total bullshit.
Reason Magazine has been against the "war on drugs" for decades. Here are many dozens of articles published by Reason regarding the insanity of the "war on drugs." Citing to the New York Time, Reason gives the following evidence that the "war on drugs" is a failure:
Prices match supply with demand. If the supply of an illicit drug were to fall, say because the Drug Enforcement Administration stopped it from reaching the nation’s shores, we should expect its price to go up. That is not what happened with cocaine. Despite billions spent on measures from spraying coca fields high in the Andes to jailing local dealers in Miami or Washington, a gram of cocaine cost about 16 percent less last year than it did in 2001. The drop is similar for heroin and methamphetamine. The only drug that has not experienced a significant fall in price is marijuana . . . Jeffrey Miron, an economist at Harvard who studies drug policy closely, has suggested that legalizing all illicit drugs would produce net benefits to the United States of some $65 billion a year, mostly by cutting public spending on enforcement as well as through reduced crime and corruption.
The Friendly Atheist reports: First, the legislators decide to use public money to support religious schools. Then, Valerie Hodges discovers that Islam is a religion, and that "religious" schools include Islamic schools. You learn something every day.
