There’s been a lot of money invested in legal weed by those that have lots of money—people and corporations that give money to campaigns and actually have influence (I’m sure the Koch brothers are among this group with direct or indirect financial exposure). I’m not so sure it’s going to be so easy this time. …

I think one of the big issues here is that they’re worried about employees being able to get access to the new cars (and especially special/limited edition models) ahead of others, and then flipping them for a big profit (the optics of which, wouldn’t be great for the company). I’ve even heard stories of Ferrari…

I by no means think that this is the Democrats’ “fault”, but I do wonder if Sessions’ confirmation could have been blocked if those who opposed him focused more on his hostility to the rule of law and support for civil asset forfeiture. Those are things that affect everyone, while racism generally only affects…

Why can’t we just get the GTC4 wagon that we really want?

I don’t think you’ll find too many people that would argue that criminals shouldn’t be able to keep the ill-gotten gains of their crimes. But for Sessions or anyone else to apply that description to this situation is deeply dishonest. You don’t even have to be charged with a crime, let alone convicted of one, and…

Only thing that would have been better is if Tucker Carlson pulled out the supposed evidence—I’m curious whether it’s pictures of poop, or pictures of people pooping. And I’m not sure how only a few pictures allows one to indict an entire race.

I feel like the biggest issue is that we’ll no longer be able to say “nuclear triad” if it’s no longer a triad...

Dems are faced with a Faustian bargain of sorts: they (seemingly genuinely) want to get money out of politics, but begrudgingly accept that money is what it takes to win nowadays, especially in this post-Citizens United, Dark Money political landscape. Despite assertions by the right to the contrary, “liberal”…

I don’t disagree that this fits with Sessions’ retrograde thinking, but since whites (and not just the hippies anymore) use marijuana at the same rates as everyone else, they’d get caught up in this as well. Also, many of the states where its been legalized (for medical or recreational purposes) are right-leaning or…

You’d think he’d focus more on opiates/heroin, but for some reason he’s pretty fixated on the marijuana. This is all reminiscent of Nixon’s War on Hippies/Marijuana.

There are probably a few things going on here. First, de Blasio probably doesn’t care about lowering marijuana arrests as mayor, as much as he did when he was a candidate for mayor. Maybe there really are more important things for him to spend political capital on, or maybe he just doesn’t care all that much.

You’d think the NRA would be all over the case of a man who was killed by an agent of the state, essentially for legally carrying a gun as per his “god-given 2nd Amendment rights” (since racism isn’t a thing, since and because Obama...).

Did anyone think DMX was still making money?

It’s hard to take anyone in a pajama top too seriously, even a fine silk pajama top. It is unfortunate that there are so many untreated mental illnesses in this country, and too much access to guns—not that she’s suggesting we do anything about either of those things.

This would probably be a non-issue (by current standards, not by my own standards) if it weren’t Donald Trump Jr. Aside from all of the other stupid things the campaign and administration have done, having a family member who can’t be dismissed as some rogue operative do things like this is just fucking dumb.

I don’t know how anyone can just be so blasé about cutting Medicaid and the essential services it provides to so many people, to allow them to lead more fulfilling lives. In this case, Zahra wants to work as an animator, which probably wouldn’t be possible at a group home.

The level of politics has sunken to a new low, when meeting with a Russian government stooge to spill the (questionably obtained) tea on an opponent is an acceptable part of “opposition research”. Unless he clearly knew the information was illegally obtained, and that the individual was acting on behalf of the…

This is a scary one, as the baker is claiming that he is an “artist” and not just a business providing a service to the public. To require him to make “art” that he doesn’t want to make (for any reason, but especially if it conflicts with his interpretation of his closely-held religious beliefs) sounds like it could…

While that may be true of the majority of constituents, it’s generally not true of elected representatives and the powers that be within and without the parties.

We have too many people claiming to want civility, but few are actually willing to lead with that behavior and hope it will inspire others. Instead, members of congress are all waiting for each other to be more civil before they’re prepared to be more civil themselves. I actually think that what David Rubenstein is…