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...Which is how a pair of my boxer shorts ended up in the garbage pail instead of the laundry basket," he wrote. "See, I was so caught up in pondering whether the lawn should get another dose of Weed & Feed that I lifted the lid on the garbage pail thinking it was our laundry basket. It was only an hour or so later, when I went to discard some peach peelings, that I saw my boxers there on the top of the heap...
...after providing fresh proof that the behavior of American politicians is not affected in the slightest by ridicule. Officeholders who are confronted with stories of marijuana use in college, as Representative Molinari was after being invited to deliver the keynote, still describe what they were doing with the dreaded weed not as smoking or using but as "experimenting...
...ridicule had any impact, the next pol faced with revelations of sophomore-year marijuana smoking might have responded with, "Sure, I did a little weed in college." But no. The next pol acknowledged that he had "experimented" with marijuana in college. Like the first pol, he said that he experimented very few times and that, in the full wisdom of adulthood, he regrets that he experimented at all. The next pol said the same thing. So did the pol after that...
Rappers, park legally! When a policeman went to the New Jersey home of Notorious B.I.G., 1995's Billboard rap artist of the year, to tell him to move a car, the cop smelled marijuana. A raid was mounted, and police say they found, along with the weed, an illegal semiautomatic weapon and guns with defaced serial numbers. B.I.G., who has a prior conviction on drug and gun charges, isn't allowed to own guns...
...Harvard vision of success seemed to be a combination of raw talent and a survival-of-the-fittest environment, where competition and natural selection would weed out the weak and where the strong would rise to the top--the products of a rigorous distillation of ability into a narrowly-defined conception of achievement. Harvard was great because of its Nobel laureates and its alumni heads of state, because it filled corporate boardrooms and seats in Congress. Its dominance of this type of accomplishment seemed enchanted. Good people came to Harvard to be challenged and proven against the mettle...