I was just educated in the recent attempts to legalize the use of stem cells in spinal cord research. GWB used a presidential veto to undermine the will of both the Congress and the Senate. A classic example of dogma over knowledge and research.

I can only pray that the Canadian government does the right thing and refuses to extradite Marc to the US.

Yesterday I wrote about the local paper's campaign to invoke searches of babies and small children visiting prisons. Last night 179 prisoners at the medium security Matsqui institution in the Frazer Valley took over the yard and did some damage and lit some things on fire.

The Vancouver Province and columnist Joey Thompson have out done themselves this time. Always on the prohibitionist side of the drug issue, now they're going after addicts already in prison. Some guard complained (what else's new) about some visitor having ions from some kind of hi-tech scan that was positive for drugs and reported it to child welfare.