 | | Reason.tv: Learning from Allen Ginsberg
Beat icon Allen Ginsberg is getting a resurgence of attention, 13 years after his death at the age of 70. A movie based on the story behind Ginsberg's signature poem, "Howl," opens this Friday. It stars James Franco as the young poet embroiled in a 1957 obscenity trial over the poem, which ended in a landmark win for free speech. And an exhibition of Ginsberg's photography, "Beat Memories," played to enthusiastic crowds all summer at Washington-D.C.'s National Gallery of Art. Ginsberg had both a unique eye and unique access to a generation of literary heroes, snapping classic portraits like Jack Kerouac smoking on a fire escape and William Burroughs standing next to a sphinx at the Museum of Natural History.
Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie looks at why Ginsberg-a champion of gay rights, free speech, nonviolence, and drug legalization-still has a lot to teach us.
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A Wasted Decade? Life isn't perfect. But advances in medicine and technology are making things better all the time.
In a recent interview with The New York Times , Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) claimed that the first decade of the new century was "basically a complete waste of time" and a "false economy." David Harsanyi sees things differently. Sure, we may have squandered riches, Harsanyi writes, but we certainly haven't squandered a decade. In fact, the trajectory of progress is rising on virtually every front. Thanks to innovations in medicine and technology, life is getting better all the time.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/09/22/a-wasted-decade-hardly
Ad Rage: Democrats blame the First Amendment for their impending losses.
As Democrats head for what promises to be a midterm election fiasco of historic proportions, says Senior Editor Jacob Sullum, they have begun to blame Citizens United, the January decision in which the Supreme Court overturned restrictions on political speech by corporations. But if independent groups favoring Republicans have a spending advantage so far, Sullum argues, it's not because of recent changes in election law.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/09/22/ad-rage
Hit & Run, Reason's Staff Blog
Who Do You Trust When It Comes to Interpreting Drug War Legislation?
Yesterday, I blogged the Drug Policy Alliance's take on new drug war legislation known as the The Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act of 2010, which would amend the Controlled Substances Act (the major legislation governing the War on Drugs). DPA claims that the bill could "subject Americans to incarceration for drug offenses and public health interventions that are legal in the foreign country in which they're committed." In other words, if you smoke dope in Amsterdam or shoot heroin overseas - even under a doctor's orders - you could get locked up in the U.S. for it....
Read the rest here.
Posted by Nick Gillespie
http://reason.com/blog/2010/09/22/who-do-you-trust-when-it-comes
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Good Thing It Wasn't a Purple Nurple
Officials at Indiana's Delphi Community High School have concluded that attempting to give someone a wedgie does not constitute sexual hazing. The school and local police both investigated after parents of a freshman complained three other students had sexually hazed their son. They found three juniors had tried to give him a wedgie, the student asked them to stop and they did.
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