Posts Tagged ‘bob barr’
Bob Barr Lauds Demise of Barr Amendment
Last week, the House of Representatives at long last voted to kill the Barr Amendment—a rider banning D.C.’s implementation of a medical marijuana initiative passed in 1998. It was originally sponsored by Georgia congressman Bob Barr and has been attached to the annual District budget for a decade.
LL covered the possible arrival of medical marijuana here in his column a couple of weeks back (a column that was widely read for other reasons). LL had tried to get in touch with Barr, now a libertarian political activist and presidential candidate, for the story, but didn’t connect with him in time.
But now, via a Libertarian Party press release, we have his feelings on the matter.
Obama and the Mythical Beasts
Yesterday Wonkette noted Los Angeles CityBeat’s Oct. 29 cover, which features the candidate of a major political party seated in Arcadian splendor, being attended by two feral cats, a long-horned goat, and a unicorn.
But the Barack Obama/unicorn meme runs much deeper than that. Two weeks ago, Creative Loafing in Atlanta (owned by the same company as City Paper) published a cover featuring Obama riding a unicorn, presumably on some sort of sacred mission (maybe to rescue CL from bankruptcy?).
Then there’s this. And this. And, God help us, this (as far as I know, Cherkis has no plans to get the latter as a tattoo, but he should consider it).
I understand the superimposition of what even a year ago seemed like a fantasy (Obama taking the nomination) with mythical beasts. But what happens when fantasy collides with reality? Will we see more unicorns if Obama wins, or will Bob Barr start riding them?
Fuego/Frio: Erik Wemple Talks!
In which Erik chastises the Dupont Current for its misleading real estate section and rewards the InTowner for—get this—their snappy headlines!
Quote of the week: “That’s as succinct as they’ve been in ten years!” Scary part is, that’s probably true.
Meanwhile, the good folks at Reason front a totally unreasonable headline. Erik’s flip-out, and Riggs’ response, below the jump.
