A pretty bracing view of Mexico’s take on the US drug war and the savage toll it’s taken on Mexico. Former Mexican President Vincente Fox showed up In Seattle today for a new conference to announce the launch of the first national marijuana brand. He’s not involved in the business but urged reporters to “maintain a focus on the important issues at hand: the failure of the drug war, the thousands of lives lost, and the better alternative offered by legalization.”

Washington state police dogs must now unlearn how to smell weed post-legalization in the state.

“An attorney for the unidentified woman said she became intoxicated at a “football house” and woke up the next morning with little recollection of the previous night. She learned through social media and friends that three men claimed to have had sex with her.”

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To greet African leaders arriving for conference in Japan, event organizers force group of Penguins to dress up in ‘African’ costumes … Read More

Foxmeister Megyn Kelly in epic brawl with Erick Erickson over whether science says men should be dominant in relationships and whether she’s an ’emo liberal’. Watch.

Mich Gov Rick Snyder introduces “I’m a RickChick” stickers for supporters.

As Bill Clinton and John Edwards and Bill Jefferson and various others have made clear, Democrats do have scandals. Plenty of them actually. But here we have another good example of why Republicans so often have bad luck these days with bogus scandals they’re so hyped up about or ones that actually are legitimate scandals but which get overrun by so much hysterical nonsense that the actual scandal gets forgotten amidst a lava-like deluge of The Crazy. In a few words, most of the right-wing press is just astonishingly bad. Read More

Well, maybe not a big break. But perhaps a conceptual break. Or perhaps a new slogan for the 2014 reelection campaign he committed to running yesterday – “Yes I Smoked Crack But No One Got Killed!” Also, young Somali supporters of the Mayor reportedly considered making a faux Ford Crack Video to discredit the real one using a local Ford lookalike named ‘Slurpy’ – but ‘Slurpy’ pulled out. Read More

Bill O’Reilly: Ex-IRS commissioner’s 157 visits to White House are ‘smoking gun’ in IRS scandal. Watch.

Dan Quayle aide counsels Rick Perry: No way to shake the moron rep once it takes hold.