Recent Votes

• "We're not in church. This is your Tampa City Council and we're legislators."

  Source: St. Petersburg Times > Local News

  (from the TBT* section) THUMBS UP "We're not in church. This is your Tampa City Council and we're legislators. When I look at my responsibil­ity here, it does have to do with, as one of the speakers said, liberty and jus­tice for all."

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• California Medical Association Says Pot Prohibition Is A "Failed Public Health Policy"

  Source: blog.norml.org

  Members of the California Medical Association's (CMA) House of Delegates have endorsed a resolution stating that the criminal prohibition of marijuana is a "failed public health policy."

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• Sarah Palin's Facebook Ghost-Writer Objects To Newsweek Cover

  Source: facebook.com

  The choice of photo for the cover of this week's Newsweek is unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah Palin, this "news" magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant.

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• A Few Words of Advice on Nudity and Hindsight

  Somewhere out there, there's a picture of me naked. It's a Polaroid shot taken with an instant camera (y'know, back when cameras needed film). I'm lying on a bed, wearing nothing but me birthday suit.

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• Spanish region takes hands-on approach to sex education: 'self-exploration and self-pleasure' to be taught

  Source: Guardian Unlimited

  It is a subject that would make most governments blush, but officials in the Spanish region of Extremadura have launched a major programme to encourage what could be described as a more hands-on approach to sexuality.

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