Tag: Drugs

  • Now, This is Satire!

    Satire has to have an element of truth to it, I told a friend a couple of days ago in my argument with people over why the New Yorker magazine cover did not work as satire. I found this piece at Huffingtonpost.com talking about the same subject and using a political cartoon trying to puncture…

  • Snoop Dogg – My Medicine (Official Music Video)

    Snoop with Willie Nelson. This is way too cool! Alright, so I can’t say that I’m the most dedicated country music aficionado out there but this is, simply, the best and most effective country music song I’ve ever heard. Snoop Dogg’s ‘My Medicine’ lyrics Yeah I Like to dedicate this record here to my main…

  • Living and dying on these Jersey streets

    On a New Jersey Block, a Second Bright Student Is Mourned By FERNANDA SANTOS and NATE SCHWEBER IRVINGTON, N.J. — Dolores Timmons watched as the woman who lived across the street paced the sidewalk for a good half hour under a scorching August heat, back and forth across the length of her front yard as…

  • The people's house

    Last August, a bridge fell in Minneapolis and we learned it would cost $225 billion a year for the next 50 years just to maintain America’s crumbling roadways and bridges. A new report just out says African Americans still lag behind white Americans significantly in income, education and other measures of well-being. Healthcare in America…

  • Stakes & Commitments

    Photo by Max Whittaker for The New York Times: Barack Obama, then known as Barry, in a 1978 senior yearbook photo at the Punahou School in Honolulu. At Punahou, a preparatory school that had few black students, he talked with friends about race, wealth and class. Back at the time the New York Times explored…

  • DRUG LABORATORIES DAMAGED BY FIRE

    Fire damaged South Hackensack plant of a pharmaceutical company.