This mornings theme would seem to be about standing up for your rights and the changes that can be made when you do.

The medical marijuana story has the wrong link.

According to this article, this is not the 1st time he's met with abuse victims: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/world/…

"It was Benedict’s fourth such meeting. He also met with abuse victims in visits to the United States and Australia in 2008, and in Rome last year."

We all agree that it should be his 100,000th meeting, not his 4th. We all agree that it's little comfort for abuse victimes who have been ignored for decades. But still - facts are facts, and you didn't check them.

Vitas Gerulaitis is an alumus of my high school.

It can't be all bad!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_…

I think it's instructive that the only people who were arrested at the Nazi rally in LA were counter-protesters. Yeah, the Nazis might be hateful kooks, but it sure seems like they were an improvement over the other idiots there.

The article on pot's link goes to something else...

This is the link you meant (unpaid intern). http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/lo…

"The white supremacists eventually gave up and pushed their car away so they could jump-start it out of range of the projectiles."

For some reason that just tickled me.