Microbusiness to the rescue, DEA edition

Check out this lede from an article in today’s Washington Post:
Stiff competition from thousands of mom-and-pop marijuana farmers in the United States threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican drug organizations in a way that decades of arrests and seizures have not, according to law enforcement officials and pot growers in the United States and [...]

Golden parachutes trump federal bailouts

File this one under “I couldn’t possibly make this stuff up.”
Word is that those Wall Street investment banks are considering turning the government down on that bailout offer.
After all that … could you die?
I would probably be indignant if I weren’t doubled over with laughter.
Why? you may wonder if you don’t feel like clicking the [...]

Strolling down memory lane

Last week, NY Times columnist Robert Cohen began an article with this terse but telling comment:
An American president is in Europe and nobody cares. That’s a moment.
Evidently, Europe has gone from loathing Bush and yelling about it to loathing Bush and breathing a relieved sigh about his imminent departure. Which actually gives them quite a [...]

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