4.29.2009

The cuteness that is the Free Encouragement Project.  I should send way more postcards.


Left: Penguin sci fi covers, past and present.


All about Pale Ale.

Harry & Davids, the pride of Medford...

Great news: "The movement to reform federal cocaine sentencing laws got a big boost from the Obama administration today, as a top Justice Department official testified before Congress in support of reducing the difference between punishments for crack and powdered cocaine."

The battle over custom license plates in Illinois: "For an extra fee, the state issues plates representing and benefiting numerous organizations and causes -- everything from remembering fallen soldiers to encouraging mammograms -- but it has denied Choose Life Illinois' petition for its own moving billboard. Predictably enough, the group's desired slogan is "Choose Life" (which kinda takes on a double meaning, given the message's medium). It's the kind of rallying cry you might expect on a bumper sticker, but should it appear on a state-issued license plate? Well, the group certainly thought so and challenged the state, but Chicago's federal appeals court disagreed. Now, Choose Life is asking the Supreme Court to intervene."

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