Doc 40

Munz sent us this nonsense from The New York Times as an example of what we may well see all over the panting media as marijuana legalizati...

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Our pal Bernard, as well as the very wonderful Mother and Doctor from the Bangalore Film Society, have insisted that I read Ma...

The problems with the Funtopia website – that tells you more about me than I even want to know – have been fixed. All you need to do is clic...

Except to say that Valerie sent it.

The stalwart Munz sent over this press release from California NORML . "California NORML Release - Jul 15th 2009 Marijuana Legalization...

This is an old white male. They are scum. I know. I am one. This one is mean, greedy, fearful, vicious, and stupid, but also sufficiently de...

This is a picture of Brigitte Bardot, posted for no other reason than it’s a picture of Brigitte Bardot. (And maybe an antidote to Dick Chen...

While Democrats fritter away their time on economic recovery and healthcare let’s all give praise that fearless, conservative, god-fearing R...

Our pal Wendy drew my attention to this. It’s modern music but I think I like it. You may too. Click here .

(I think it’s near the C Street Exit.)

A United Nations report that projects the imact of global recession could quite effectively spoil your lunch… “An effort on the sc...

Jonathan Turley is a law professor at George Washington University and, about half an hour ago on Countdown with Keith Olbermann , he accuse...

Click here for the whole porky story.

Uncle Bill is very happy to meet R. Crumb.

I don’t usually pass along book reviews, but since our pal Bernard sent me this, and I found it really fascinating and now want to get the b...

Lois and Matilda – the daughters of Palindrome (Bobob) Frozdick – have motorized their mission. (And, along their predetermined course, they...

A recent Pew poll comparing the attitudes and beliefs of scientists and regular folks reveals that regular folks are dumber than planks – mu...

Today is Tesla’s birthday. He would have been 153. Click here for a handy Tesla briefing. And here to save Tesla's last and only existi...

Pic supplied by Valerie and also the Telsa info.

...that we forgot July 3rd was the 40th anniversary of the death of Brian Jones. For a full retrospective on the excellent Houndblog, clic...

The venerable website Funtopia is in temporary cyber-limbo malfunction, but we are assured a rescue mission is already being mounted.

The death of Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara at 93 should hardly pass without mention. McNamara was one of the key arch...

You gotta watch this. It’s a quintessential junk-news paradox. How do you handle the story of how a little old lady beat an adorable baby de...

While the media in what the TV news like to call “the Southland” spends 100% of its time today waxing implausibly maudlin over the Michael J...

And one symptom of the Speed-Up is way in which all things become possible on the web. Just yesterday, I remarked how, “when I was a kid I ...

No. It’s a surveillance device. When I was a kid I used to see a comic strip – I’m damned if I can remember the title – that featured somet...

Last week wallabies were breaking into opium fields, getting high, and then staggering around to make crop circles. (See June 26th) Now Noud...

Charles Krauthammer is a right wing, neocon, blowhard who fancies himself as an intellectual, and to prove he’s a cut above Rush, he has a c...

Aunt Gethsemane has a very understanding relationship with her personal banker.

Happy Fourth of July to all our American comrades as they recall their revolution. Rockets, ribs, hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night a...

My response to the news was one of profane bafflement. Palin is resigning as Governor of Alaska? Say what? If anything, it was even weirder ...

This is Al Franken. I never liked Al Franken. An asshole. A tiresome wizeass blowhard. On the original SNL he was never as funny as he thou...

In Washington the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. It was flawed to the point of being dismissed by many en...

“So how much cholesterol do you figure there is in rattlesnake?"

Those where days, my friends. When Kellogg dusted their cereals with amphetamine and moms were happy all day and docile. Just ask Lucy Jorda...

For some time now I’ve suffered from this unfocused fear that, here in the new 21st century depression, it all looked too...

In a frozen photographic moment a young woman glows, and high on the nobility of her cause, prepares to turn back the fascists....