Health
David Nutt lecture: drug use, policy and prohibition
I don’t agree with everything he says but overall this is brilliant for anyone interested in the issue of drug use and prohibition, and particularly the varying legal and media responses to drugs. What I find a little uneven is his quasi-prohibitionism regarding alcohol while being much more open minded about illegal drugs. Part of […]
Ethan Nadelmann: Fighting the war against the war on drugs
Ethan Nadelmann: “Right now the wind is at our back” from Hungarian Civil Liberties Union on Vimeo. Opening speech of Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance at the 2009 Drug Reform Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Always enjoy this man’s speeches and as always there is a little summary of the history […]
Mitchell and Webb have a go at Vegetarianism & Homeopathy
The boys from Peep Show in an earlier incarnation: on vegetarianism on homeopathy
Drunk breastfeeders, guns required
I’ll be getting back to Cambodia soon but in the meanwhile, a few thought provoking news items. 1. via JoinTogether: Debate on Charging Woman with Breast Feeding while Drunk (original here). Unless she has a history of dropping the child, or perhaps driving while she is breastfeeding, I once again wonder at the industriousness of […]
Garbage in the streets and on the screen…
See DailyDose for this and other pictures of the garbage strike in Toronto. And speaking of garbage, the other night I could not sleep and ended up watching some extraordinarily bad television. Bad televsion like good television is hardly news but this was worth a rant I thought. First up was Groomer Has It. This […]
Wish I’d Written This One
Over at Science-Based Medicine, guest author Mark Crislip has a hearty post called Alternative Flight. Here is an excerpt: Airplane design Current airplane design is based upon a white male Western European model of what powered flight should look like. Long metal tubes with wings are a phallic design that insults the sensibilities of women, […]
