Today the New York Times published a respectable article looking at the future of the marijuana movement, and what’s next for 2012. The Times used a meeting in Denver of marijuana advocates last week as the basis for its story. Overall, I have no complaints about the article. It’s the photo and accompanying caption that are just embarrassing for the times.

The photo for this story on the future of marijuana legalization is two dudes smoking a bowl in a car, with the caption, “Marijuana advocates gathered in Denver recently for an event that was partly a review of the California campaign for legalization.”

The New York Times has released a full unredacted version version of the Department of Justice’s Office of Special Investigation (OSI) “Striving for Accountability in the Aftermath of the Holocaust.” According to NYT reporter Eric Lichtblau, “The Justice Department has resisted making the report public since 2006.” A “heavily redacted” version was released last month to the private National Security Archive, and now a leaked version of the entire document has been released to the public.

The evocation of words like “accountability” in the context of suppressed documents, leaks, and war crimes has an eerie resonance today for those fighting for accountability for U.S. torture.

Conspiring with a foreign government to undermine your own is the textbook definition of treason. Except, apparently, when you’re an American Republican and the country you’re colluding with is Israel.

The housing crisis isn’t going away. The economy is.

It is all the fashion in Washington, D.C. One simply must sport a terrible dislike for Social Security and wish with all one’s heart that the money be given instead to the very, very rich, where it will become, I guess, High Society Security.

Ahhh – the beautiful, beautiful world of President Pangloss.

Now, with the decision to just let KSM rot, it seems to me, that plan gains a new anchor (and none too soon! given that only a handful of al Qaeda members remain in Afghanistan, that justification was getting rather dicey). After all, the very decision not to try KSM in a military commission is an admission that it would not work for him–it might rule out the death penalty for him in any case, but a military commission judge actually has leeway to adjust any sentence on account of the extreme torture KSM underwent, meaning our torture of KSM might become a central issue in a military commission.

“Mark Halperin called the guest list for Sunday’s ‘Meet the Press’ an ‘all-star lineup.’ ” – Steve Benen. Read the rest of his take, but not while eating breakfast. As Scarecrow puts it, “Great panel. It combines the man who crashed the financial sector and US economy, with the man who brought down the government and helped destroy politics, and the man who represents the intellectual collapse of the Democratic party. Don’t know Bethany, but I assume they chose her because Ms. McLean is an expert on nihilism.”

Ski For Two starring Woody Woodpecker. This Universal Pictures cartoon was released on November 13, 1944. Grab your popcorn, put your feet up on the seatback in front of ya, and aim your spitballs at the ushers please. This is Late Late Night FireDogLake, where off topic is the topic … so dive in. What’s on your mind?

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