So how are your NCAA brackets doing? I was reminded by President Jed Bartlett via Twitter that there is no Federal Disaster assistance for your brackets. Oh well.
Sir Richard Branson asked President Obama for a splif at a White House Dinner this week. That’s a marijuana cigarette for those of you without the lingo. I’d love to have better detail of the President’s reaction to this joking request. But Branson makes this point at a forum later on:
“We [the Global Commission on Drug Policy] spent 18 months looking at the global war on drugs, and it was absolutely apparent to the commission that the war had failed. It cost countries gigantic amounts of money, it has imprisoned hundreds of thousands of people… people were executed for possession, and some countries, oppressive countries like Iran are using drugs as a way of executing their opponents.”
Word. End the madness.
Speaking of madness — the NRA has been robocalling and postcarding residents of Newton , CT. Completely classless and clueless behavior from these rat bastards:
“I received one of these,” Newtown resident Christopher Wenis wrote on Facebook Thursday afternoon. “I was insulted and offended.” Wenis told The Huffington Post in an interview Friday night that in the 36 hours since he first posted his response, he received two more robocalls from the NRA, one later on Thursday night and one Friday evening.
“I’ve got a 5-year-old son who went to preschool on the Sandy Hook Elementary School campus,” Wenis explained. “And this was a really hard week for me on a lot of levels. These calls were the very last thing I needed.”
And then there’s STILL this:
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