It’s actually a pretty typical pro-state’s rights move by the court; but I just wanted to point out that it was WJC and his Justice Department who tried to revoke federal prescription licenses of doctors who recommend marijuana.

Robert Kampia, head of the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, said the court “has eliminated any doubt that states have the right to protect medical marijuana patients under state law, and that physicians have the right to give patients honest advice and recommendations, whether the federal government approves or not.’‘

The Iraqi Engineers, in a move to undo one of Saddam Hussein’s attempts at genocide, have restored normal flows in Iraq’s rivers:

The rest of the marsh is similarly nascent. The reeds are not yet sufficient to rebuild the huts destroyed by Hussein’s army. The birds that have returned are not the right species to trap.

But as the scion of a clan that has lived here for perhaps 5,000 years, Kerkush said he is willing to be patient while engineers and politicians figure out how to pump more water into the marshes.

“Saddam did everything he could to kill us,” he said. “You cannot recover from that right away.”

Jay Leno summed it up well last night: “Sunday’s rain-out (of the ALCS) was God saying ‘Hey, (y’all), it’s just a game.’”

Saturday’s ALCS game between the AL East champs, the NY Yankees, and the AL Wildcard, the team who traded away the babe and is forced to watch Bill Buckner letting an easy grounder dribble through his legs again and again, the Boston Red Sox, disintegrated into something that was more WWE than “our National Pastime”.

And it can be traced back to the simple fact that in the AL, pitchers don’t have to get in the batter’s box and let the other team throw 90+ MPH fastballs at their head.