I have been blogging online since before there were blogs. I began on a listserve at Marist University called QC-L back in the late 1990s. That evolved into a Blogger account I had at RadicalRuss.net during the George W. Bush Administration. From there, I joined the acclaimed LGBT blog Pam's House Blend as a guest blogger, leading to my accreditation to cover the 2008 Democratic National Convention nominating Barack Obama in Denver. During my career in marijuana legalization, I wrote numerous articles online and in print on the subject. I continue blogging from time to time on various subjects here and as much of my past blogging as I've been able to recover is found here as well.
Pot shops don’t form massive hedge funds to buy up residential properties to jack up rents for more shareholder profits. Cannabis fields don’t kick mental patients out of hospitals and onto the streets. Legal reefer doesn’t bankrupt people when they get sick or injured in the only first world country lacking universal health insurance.
Wise men, these Founders, to be able to see three centuries into the future and understand that the need for Minutemen to be instantly ready to grab their muskets, powder, and shot to repel a Redcoat invasion of their Colonial hamlet is justification enough for someone to secretly stockpile modern assault rifles capable of wiping out an entire British platoon in a minute at 300 yards in their city of a million people today.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is proposing that the U.S. raise the voting age to 25, with exceptions for those 18 and older who serve in the military, work as emergency responders or take a naturalization test.
This week the Grim Reaper brings us Croatian, Moroccan, Brazilian, & Greek artists on the Festival Stage, four American and Australian acts for the Jazz Cellar and the Country Bunker, an American and a Swede on our Main Stage, and, of course, our headliner, Canadian folk legend Gordon Lightfoot.
When the prosecution goes forward with a second degree manslaughter charge, it’s a smaller hurdle to have to clear, as they only need to prove that Daniel Penny’s actions could reasonably be expected to cause mortal harm, regardless of what his intent was.
CNN was met with howls of condemnation from politicians and media commentators for platforming the racist, anti-Semitic, and misogynistic views of the twice-defeated German leader. CNN Chairman Chris Licht defended the program, saying that “Despite the unique circumstances that complicate the presentation of Mr. Hitler’s campaign, he is the acknowledged front-runner for the nomination of the Nazi Party, and therefore, newsworthy.”
That means if incestuously pregnant teenage daughter wants an abortion, she has to report her incestuous rape by daddy to the police. Which could be complicated by, oh, I don’t know, say an incestuous abusive daddy that tells daughter to keep a secret or else he’ll kill the whole family with the Idaho-beloved AR-15 he keeps lovingly displayed on the wall.
This is just the simple medical marijuana and recreational marijuana map, updated in April 2023 for the addition of Delaware. Soon, I’ll have to update it for Minnesota.
I say we ought to clear everything up and have a Woke vs Patriot Brand Draft, a la Dave Chappelle’s “Racial Draft” sketch.
I specifically stood in the cold to avoid the standing in a huge indoor snake queue full of COVID-carrying humans, goddammit. What the hell is VIP for plasma donation?
This week’s show is packed with disco, rap, Celtic, Ukrainian, country, and metal musical artistry from ages 22 to 97, featuring our Headliner, the late great civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.
Unlike time to be imprisoned, we do not all share the same income to be fined. A $500 fine to me means bills don’t get paid. A $500 fine to Warren Buffet is a rounding error. So, you end up with the double-parking scenario in New York, where it’s easier for the rich to pay parking tickets than to try to find parking.
I used to be a Twitter power user (22K followers), but since Elon Musk turned it into a Nazi pub, I then migrated to Threads, until Mark Zuckerberg began throttling political speech and forced me off that, Facebook, and Instagram. Then TikTok went and kissed the Felon’s ring, so bye bye, there, too. You can find me primarily now on BlueSky, where I’m verified as @RadicalRuss.com. I’m also on Mastodon, kinda, and YouTube with our live stream and video archive.
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