The Banana Peel Project

Just some stuff that’s been keeping me entertained the last couple of weeks:
Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?
TIME magazine publishes a short piece on a recent Cato Institute report claiming that “in the five years after personal possession [for all drugs] was decriminalized, illegal drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new […]

wait a minute here.
isn’t revolution supposed to happen from the “bottom,” the “roots,” the “people”?
i mean, you’d never call a military coup a “revolution.”  that’s why you call it a “coup.”
you know, the folks who live farthest away from the walls, out in the fields, the first to be burned when the invaders came.
they’re always […]

A cloaking robe of elvenkind
hangs in my wardrobe behind
All those things that mother
said were proper for a boy
And I know I could not say why
On this summer evening

Sixteen books on magic spells
stacked below the cloak of elves
And sixteen books on magic spells
so elegantly bound
And I know I could not say why
On this summer evening
And […]