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NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog

NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog

http://stash.norml.org

Daily talk with Russ Belville, featuring opinion, interviews and music about marijuana law reform.

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Great Regulars: Steve [Seymour] and I represent a kind of a rare

Poetry & Poets in Rags | January 5th 2010 by Rus Bowden

case of cooperation. The history of poetry knows a number of examples of poets being man and wife, though those were not very happy marriages. But, unless I am mistaken, there has been no case of a wife being a poet and the husband being a translator read more

Obama’s Got Your Climate Change Hanging

Everything PR | January 4th 2010 by Phil Butler

President Barack Obama performed a superb version of the Potomac Two Step after the Copenhagen Climate Summit debacle. In an interview with PBS Newshour the President somehow found the wisdom to acknowledge there is reason for disappointment over the read more

Poetry News For January 4, 2010

Poetry Hut Blog | January 4th 2010 by jilly

— WB Yeats and Sigmund Freud works posted on Wikipedia as copyright expires — *** — A celebration of the great writers who died in the past decade — *** — Rachel Wetzsteon, Poet of Keen Insights and Wit, Dies at 42 &# read more

Did the US Take the Back Seat In Science In 2009?

slashdot.org | January 2nd 2010 by Anjalee

tcd004 writes "In the PBS NewsHour's roundup of the biggest science news of the year, Neil DeGrasse Tyson dropped this doozie: '[Scientific leadership] drives the economic strength and security of nations. The fall is not from a cliff. More like a sl read more

Obama admits failure at climate change conference

Views from the Left Coast | December 31st 2009 by NatetheGrate

Well, at least we know they don't believe their own fantastic rhetoric. We're speaking, of course, of U.S. President Barack Obama's statement today that he understands why people view the just-concluded climate change summit in Copenhagen as a failur read more

Finally! Good News About Mexico

Cabo Realtor | December 31st 2009 by Carol Billups

This morning I stumbled on the link to a recent (Dec. 28) news video about Americans getting health care, this time a very good report by PBS. Here is the link to the video: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec09/mexico_12-28.html It’s so read more

December 29th forum announcement

Poetry & Poets in Rags | December 29th 2009 by Rus Bowden

Dear Poetry Aficionados,IBPC: Poetry & Poets in RagsTwo men's names recur in the news this week, both are poets and activists: Dennis Brutus, who has died, and Liu Xiaobo, who was sentenced to eleven years in jail. You will find news and poetry of De read more

Great Regulars: By Dennis Brutus

Poetry & Poets in Rags | December 29th 2009 by Rus Bowden

Can the heart compute desire's trajectoryfrom PBS: Newshour: Weekly Poem: 'Longing'~~~~~~~~~~~ read more

Janet Napolitano Got a Free Pass When She Insisted Terrorism Be C…

a b.ubbling gee.k.s | December 28th 2009 by KENTFUTURA

The outbreak of conservative anger over Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's mysterious declaration on CNN that "the system worked" when a terror attack almost succeeded on a Northwest Airlines flight is stoking a revisitation of her odd read more

Connecting the Green Dots

Environmental Thoughts - Rochester, NY | December 27th 2009 by Frank

The Copenhagen Climate Conference is over and almost everyone, including President Obama himself, admits failure: “I think that people are justified in being disappointed about the outcome in Copenhagen.” (Obama on Health Reform Politics, Copenha read more

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