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[personal profile] cmcmck 2018-04-15 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
The church reminds me of Dode Chapel in the Cuxton Valley down in Kent- given your origins which are similar to mine, I don't know if you ever saw it?
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[personal profile] redbird 2018-04-15 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
The legal marijuana article says that this may only apply to Colorado, whose Republican senator was using parliamentary tactics. (Also, the other senator from Colorado is quoted as pointing out that Trump changes his mind constantly.) It's the LA Times, so they emphasize that things are still uncertain for California, but that also applies in Washington state, Alaska, etc.

(I live in Massachusetts, where we're supposed to be getting legalization this summer, but a lot of details are still fuzzy.)
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[personal profile] randomdreams 2018-04-15 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
>"Trump administration abandons crackdown on legal marijuana"

This week. Next week, when someone else with a moral crusade and a zillion dollars invested in private prisons sufficiently bribes contributes to campaign funds, it'll come lurching back like a zombie.
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[personal profile] dewline 2018-04-16 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
What's that phrase of Paul Krugman's for ideas that should die but don't ever go away after being discredited?

Zombie ideas, right?
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[personal profile] randomdreams 2018-04-16 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, although I'm not sure he invented the term. I have a fifteen year old book that is devoted to the zombie ideas that were in vogue in economics at the time.