Grandma Arrested for Smoking Weed

A 71 year old Great-Grandmother, and cancer patient, was arrested for smoking marijuana.
“After cancer treatments, I was very sick,” she said. “I couldn’t eat and could not stand the smell of food.”
She weighed 99 pounds when she entered Lincoln Hospital in 1998. After surgery and treatments she lost even more weight. Jackson said her doctor [...]

Science Saturday on BloggingHeads.tv

It’s time for another Science Saturday on BloggingHeads.tv (yes, I know I’m posting this on Sunday …)
The Topics include:
Neurotheology’s varieties of religious experience (08:32)
A psychopharmacological epidemic of mysticism? (14:25)
The mirror-neuron edifice’s shaky foundations (09:48)
Why the long dry spell for neuroscience? (06:03)
Um, about that newly ‘discovered’ Earthlike planet (06:56)
Thomas Kuhn: fascinating, paradoxical and tragic (10:22)
Kryptonite discovered! [...]

Legalize Marijuana? Dennis Hastert says “NO!”

(cross-posted @ FreedomDemocrats.com)
Dennis Hastert, Republican Representative from Illinois, wrote a letter to the editors of the Chicago Sun Times saying:
There is absolutely no sound scientific evidence that marijuana has any medicinal value. The Food and Drug Administration is the only agency that can designate a substance as a medicine and to date has not done [...]

On Being Christian

I’m not a practicing Christian, but both of my Grandfathers were Southern Baptist Preachers, and I grew up very much believing.  And it’s likely that the draw towards the best parts of Christianity, and the repulsion to the worst parts will never leave me.
Andrew Sullivan on the other hand is very much a believer.  In [...]

Giuliani Flip Flops

(cross posted @ FreedomDemocrats.com)
To use the phrase that Fox news pushed onto us in 2004, Giuliani flip-flopped. And it’s obviously a ploy to appeal to the right wing of the Republican Party. The Sad thing is that it will probably work.
Despite Mr. Giuliani’s long history of supporting gay rights — or rather, [...]

Warming Arctic Makes Birds Migrate Early

As the Ice Melts, Birds are migrating earlier than usual.

Cap and Trade vs. Carbon Tax

We know we’re in the hole, environmentally speaking.  And we know we’ve got to start digging ourselves out.  But which way do we best attack the major problem of CO2 emissions?  Do we use a Cap and Trade system or a Carbon Tax?   What experiences can we pull from to inform our opinions?
Lucky for us, [...]

Check List In Case Of Global Warming

By Tom Toles (WaPo Editorial Cartoonist).

Law and the Rights of Man: 200th Person Released on DNA Evidence

 
 
(cross-posted @ FreedomDemocrats.com)
“Justice is the Fundamental Law of Society.” –Thomas Jefferson
The Innocence project has been working with DNA evidence to exonerate American Citizens wrongly accused of, and jailed for, crimes they didn’t commit. Here’s a report to commemorate the 200th person freed after DNA evidence proved he didn’t rape a woman 25 years ago.
There [...]

White Men Can’t Dance: Bush and Malaria Awareness

President Bush dances for Malaria Awareness Day. He is FAR outmatched. But, you got to give the guy some credit for getting into it.