you haven t heard of 27-year-old ryan coogler, expect to be hear about him soon. wrote and directed a film about the life and shooting death of an unarmed black man of a young man in oakland, california. opening in cities tonight to enthusiastic academy award speculation and, of course, a plot line eerily similar today as we wait the verdict of the shooting tet of trayvon martin. first i want to share the three awesomest things on the internet today. one institution s attempt at getting hip with the kids. unfortunately, the term yolo is a thing. it s an acronym turned hash tag originally coined by the rapper drake and stands for you only live once. yolo. what s so bad about that? plenty. urban dictionary uncharitably explains it, yolo is basically, carpe diem for the stupid people. as long as you yell yolo while doing it, it s all good. the admissions office at tuft
ballot initiative. here s my question, the politics in colorado on this issue, it was a fiercely fought battle, the ballot initiative. there were a lot of sitting members of the state legislator, the governor, i think, was officially opposed to it. are they still trying are they still opposed to it, are the politics such they are trying to do what republicans are doing to obama care, which is make sure the thing blows up and doesn t work or is there buy-in from the state s politicians to try to make this thing work? well, i think by and large there is a great deal of buy-in. our governor, along with a great number of our state legislators and other state officials, have really come together and put together what is a very robust, comprehensive, and responsible regulatory framework. there are certainly still some folks who want to do everything they can to keep adults from using marijuana or in some cases punish adults if they use marijuana, but by and large,
evan bayh joined fox news channel, became a lobbyist, this says to me there s something really sad about this whole thing, which is being a member of congress was once the thing you wanted to get to, and now being a member of congress is the farm team, the thing right before the thing you want to get to, the major leagues, which is any one of these much more highly paid influential positions. which is anything to make a lot of money, whether it s big pharma, a hedge fund, or welfare. you do mention some of our lovely former democrats. but also the feeling that when you look at being a member of congress between calling for six hours a day and the fact that the washington feels completely broken and dysfunctional, particularly congress, it s like, well, sure. it could be a rational decision. i m not sure it s a totally rational decision on her part, because i m not sure any of them have been, but she s going to have a lot of fun.
regulatory framework. there are certainly still some folks who want to do everything they can to keep adults from using marijuana or in some cases punish adults if they use marijuana, but by and large, we re seeing really a system coming together, people working in the same direction. so my question about the industry is the thing i find most fascinating here. are you afraid of creating a monster, and what i mean by that, i ve seen articles about the industry hiring lobbyist, spending a lot of money on lobbyists. this, of course, will be an industry closely regulated, so being able to influence politicians is going to be very important, and right now, particularly in the beginning, when there s no brand occupying that space, seems there s lots of money to be made on the table. is this going to be a really brutal lobbying battle behind the scenes to figure out how this industry is structured? well, you know, if you could point to an industry that doesn t have lobbyists and doesn t w
increasingly is roles are changing in the way that we live and the way people feel about that is very torn and complicated, and i wonder how that affects the politics of an issue like this. the perfect example is when i ran for congress and i was two months pregnant with my youngest daughter and the editorial page editor of one of my local papers when i went to interview for my endorsement asked if whether my opponent had been saying you could be a good mom and good member of congress but can t be both at the same time, and if that was true and how i was going to deal with it. wow. what i said to him, i d be happy to answer that question if you can assure me he asked male candidates with young kids the same question and that was the end of the conversation. i want to talk about the twin things that are happening, women earning more than their husbands is one interesting category and what single women are facing, i want to talk about all that after we take this break. thing? le