Gaspar Noé invites you to ‘Enter the Void’
French filmmaker Gaspar Noé makes the kind of movies that require warnings. His brutal 2002 revenge drama, “Irréversible,” arrived in theaters in England and Canada with a written alert about the...
View ArticleA bad law is like bad pot
People have been getting high on marijuana for thousands of years. Yet every new generation seems to think it invented the drug. Actually, mine did. Beatnik Eric (Big Daddy) Nord, “The King of North...
View ArticleMoney bolsters both sides of Prop. 19 debate
The battle over Proposition 19 has shifted to television sets and radios for the final week of the campaign, as both sides benefit from recent support from major financial backers. On Monday, George...
View ArticlePost-Prop. 19
Although Proposition 19 did not prevail at the polls, the campaign to legalize marijuana in California is not over. The initiative received more yes votes than either Meg Whitman or Carly Fiorina and...
View ArticleObama pardons ex-Marine convicted of cutting pennies in 1963
For 42 years, Ronald Foster didn’t know he had a felony conviction for cutting up pennies. It seemed like a nickel-and-dime crime at the time. President Obama apparently agreed; last week he pardoned...
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