The Banana Peel Project

Last week I wrote about a recent legal action by the medical marijuana advocacy organization Americans for Safe Access (ASA), who claims that the official federal position on medical marijuana relies on outdated and altogether false scientific facts about the dangers and efficacy of marijuana for medical use.  Again, let’s take a look at the […]

On December 21, 2000, after passing through both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2001 (H.R. 4577) received the presidential signature.  The bill provided a detailed summary of the funds that would be available for a wide variety of federal programs during the 2001 fiscal year and, […]

The process of modernization, even as it exploits and torments us, brings our energies and imaginations to life, drives us to grasp and confront the world that modernization makes, and to strive to make it our own.
Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (1982)

history is out of control
increasing fragmentation and complexity of modern […]