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I didn’t think the world was going to end if I continued driving my SUV. I didn’t think my SUV driving was significantly contributing to any environmental strife, or that the climate was warming because people like me were driving them. I didn’t think my SUV was intimidating to other ...

In this video clip I react to the news that North Korea has conducted another nuclear weapons test with three short range missiles:

2727 BC • China begins using marijuana as medicine 500 AD • Cannabis reaches Europe by way of India and Africa 1492 • Christopher Columbus brings cannabis sativa to the new world 1619 • Jamestown colony law: all settlers required to grow cannabis Circumstances Behind Sondras 1797 • George Washington’s ...

Thank God someone seems to understand why Wanda Sykes was so devastatingly unfunny at the White House Correspondents Dinner, the annual “roast” of the sitting president at which Sykes this year took the opportunity to rail against the previous administration. Hitchens says it all so wonderfully: Sykes’ time was spent ...

In response to an old adversary on W&T who heard that I enjoyed Easter at Saddleback Church this year (and juxtaposed that with his knowledge of my increasing theological liberalism), I replied to say that I did enjoy Easter at Saddleback. I’ve been to Saddleback a good few times (I ...

Shitheads. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/04/28/ST2009042801819.html

What a fun story this is. President Barack Obama, asking all the big TV networks in America to abandon their regular, business-as-usual primetime schedules for the fourth time in his first 100 days in office, has been turned down by the Fox network. Fox says it’s going to be running ...

I was listening to our morning guy talk on the air today about technology and Twitter and how we’re all spoiled enough as it is, and he was citing Louis CK saying: When I read things like, “The foundations of capitalism are shattering,” I’m like, “Maybe we need that.” … ...

‘Someone’s Gotta Go’ is the name of an upcoming Fox reality show in which, each week, real small businesses who are struggling in this economy agree to let their employees compete to keep their jobs for TV ratings, and – every week – someone will be laid off from their ...

Steve Bierfeldt works for the Campaign for Liberty, libertarian congressman Ron Paul’s popular political advocacy group. After a meeting of the organization in St. Louis, Missouri, Bierfeldt was detained and harassed by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) – the federal government agency responsible for airport security – because they wanted ...

I’m bumping this post to the top for a re-read as the debate relates to personal responsibility. Spurlock’s 30 Days has aired for three seasons. ——————— February 2007 Dear friends, I write because I see that your Paragon of Reasoning, Morgan Spurlock – the man who finally leaked to the ...

Some guys I used to play music with at our church in Belfast, Northern Ireland a few years ago went on to form a band called Bluetree. They released their debut album to the United States last month, and found themselves at Number One on the Soundscan Christian Retail Chart, ...

I finally GOT Russell Brand. I understand him now. It happened while listening to his appearance this week on the Howard Stern show: as always, Howard delves deeper and more honestly than any other interviewer, and he really got to the heart of who and what Russell is. And what ...

From an exchange on W&T asking me to set out my position on homosexuality (in response to biblical arguments against it).  The asker is an evangelical with a traditional view of homosexuality and the bible which uses certain key texts, particularly in the Old Testament, to argue that it is ...