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foreman, have you reached a verdict? [inaudible conversations] they are -- they will, mark. i'm the judge today. [laughter] you can do it next year. they're tallying the votes, ladies and gentlemen. it should be just a moment. [laughter] all right. will the defense rise. mr. foreman, have you reached a verdict? >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> i know the suspense is killing all of you. [laughter] these lights are killing me. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] >> we just need a majority, not a unanimous vote. >> [inaudible] >> kangaroo court. foreman, would you, please, read the verdict...

alcohol. >> we cannot stop people from drinking. but we have too many liquor stores. alcohol creates problems. >> reporter: you can buy beer and wine here. the concern is that underaged kids are going to go through the self checkout lanes and buy alcohol. but store officials say they have a protocol in place to keep that from happening. >> approval needed. >> reporter: once beer or wine is scanned, the checkout scanner locks up. anyone buying alcohol has to go through an id check. >> it says approval needed and employees will be there as they scan to make sure that everything is take...

c-span2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> john gibler talk about the drug war in mexico which has claimed the lives of 40,000 mexicans since 2006 and the involvement of the mexican army and police in the drug trade. he spoke at moe's books in berkeley, calif.. >> thanks to moe's books and thanks for coming out. in late march of 2010 a photographer in monterey, northern mexico got a call at 5:30 in the morning. his editor said there had been a shoot out. he gets in his car and is driving to the outskirts of monterey city and his editor calls back and says it ...

the two-time national book award nominee and berkeley professor emeritus is best done for his outspoken social commentary. his work includes mumbo jumbo, flight to canada and reckless eyeball. his most recent nonfiction is "mixing it up." >> host: in your book "writin' is fightin'," you write this, if i had to compare my writing style with anyone, it would probably be with that of larry holmes. i don't miss my words, nor do i pull any punches, though i delivered. >> guest: it's pretty long uest:hor. i think larry holmes wouldn't object to the reference low blow. i think he probably h...

>> guest: that's a long metaphor. i think that's what larry holmes objects to the reference of low blows. he hits above the waist most of the time, but, yeah, a number of people compared writing to fighting, and sphaft, i got the -- as a matter of fact, i got the term -- although i get the credit for it, the term comes from mohamed ali, and i'm writing about him right now that i started in 2003, so when he wrote a book called "the greatest" where it was ghosted by another person, someone said how are you going to write a book? he said writing is fighting, so that's where i got the te...