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On the road


  Kickstarter update on the road away from prohibition. This is an account of a one-day side-trip on the road in pursuit of the “Tales of Mary Jane”. Every day of that year-ending five-weeks was as interesting and satisfactory as (I hope you will agree) this one. The first four chapters of the book have […]

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Prohibition of Marijuana


The Korea Times “report” that triggered this letter is poorly written and a waste of your time. but you can track it down if you want to see why I felt I had to respond.

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Tales of Mary Jane: The Children of Prohibition


A year ago, I took my first step into the world of crowd funding. A success, the backing I received enabled me to present a collection of photographs I took while living in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, as a gift to the Seattle Public Library. In return for their help, I promised backers a “reward” […]

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Cannabis is coming; can Korea catch the wave?


It’s understandable that, where so much official and press puffery and bombast have been launched against marijuana since its criminalization was urged upon other nations by the US, no Korean policymaker is likely to be the first to come forward and say, “Look, we need to talk about this.”

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RIP Whitney Houston


I was already thinking about the death of this tragic young woman  when a Facebook friend posted  the ABC News report of it to me. It had come up on Talking Points Memo when I had launched it minutes earlier. I responded (to the friend) with a complaint against ABC News, that had included in […]

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The Best of the Billionaires


He may envision improvements to his FOX Broadcasting unit, where the need for help with quality content is sorely needed, if we can’t believe what we’re hearing and seeing there, and it seems we can’t.

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Cleveland SWAT Berzerkistan Blues


“…as harrowing as the park-and-shoot …”

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Health Care in Korea: Y’all Come


I am watching this video clip of Keith Olbermann on Countdown embedded in a story about Bill Clinton refusing to join an Olbermann-touted health care event in behalf of free clinics in Arkansas because Olbermann has “politicized” the event. I clicked on the story in Huffington Post because it had the instantaneous whiff of crap […]

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