legalize dueling

I have an idea for a game show. You give someone a choice of items: either a new iPad or laptop.

Then they have to use their item while riding the Red Line from Howard to 95th and back. If they can make it though the ride without getting the items stolen, they can keep them. (Same could be played on the Green Line)

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Watch the two-part PBS documentary on Bill Clinton. If you think you might have any interest in Clinton, I highly recommend it.

Cindy missed parts of it, so she'd come back in the room and I'd want to fill her in on what she missed, but it was so efficient that I never had an opportunity to stop paying attention and talk.

Lots of great stories and one-liners. Even the cinematography for some of the interviews is great (loved the shot they had during the interview with Linda Trip's literary agent.)

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Check out this short film / Chipotle commercial if you haven't already seen it.

It's taken a while for me to get behind the concept of free-range livestock. We're still killing them and eating them, do we really have the right to be outraged when they're not given optimal living conditions? Maybe. But I'm still not completely sold on the idea of "lets let these chickens have happy little chicken lives before we chop their heads off and eat them."

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This is a great story about the brawl between the Pacers and Pistons back in 2004 (and here's the video)

To sum it up, every single word of the story furthers the point that this was an extremely crazy, chaotic, violent and frightening scene.

And then there was this quote from the Piston's play by play announcer:

Bill Laimbeer and I were broadcasting the game down by the Pistons bench. Everything happened on the other end of press row. And the reason I wasn't particularly shook up about it is because Bill Laimbeer didn't seem to be particularly bothered by it. He was kind of nonplussed by the whole thing.

They just don't make them like Bill Laimbeer anymore.

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If you like books about politics/economics but don't have time to read the entire books, check out this guy's blog. I haven't read much because I stumbled upon it recently, but his output is impressive.

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If you're in the mood for something long, here's a great story about mass incarceration in America. He touches on a lot of issues that I'm not gonna getting into (although for-profit prisons may be a sign of the apocalypse.) He also argues that the next steps to lowering the prison population in America are decriminalizing marijuana, ending prison sentences for all drug misdemeanors, and giving trial court judges more discretion.

I agree with the first two.

Decriminalization of marijuana is going to face strong opposition from at least four powerful lobbies: alcohol, pharmaceuticals, prisons, and religion. And I don't think those in favor of legalizing marijuana have enough fight in them to stand up to those four, at least not anytime soon.

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Speaking of decriminalization.

Did you hear that they decriminalized murder in Juarez Mexico?

There's also a guy running for governor of Texas who wants to legalize prostitution and dueling.

In a recent speech he said, "There's only two things that matter to every red-blooded Texas man: whores and settling scores."