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Throbbing Gristle’s Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson Dies at 55 – Spinner: “Throbbing Gristle founder Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson died in his sleep on Nov 24 at the age of 55.

Born in Leeds, England, the industrial music pioneer was also a founding member of Coil and Psychic TV after Throbbing Gristle disbanded in 1981, as well as recording solo work under the name The Threshold HouseBoys Choir. Most recently he founded SoiSong in 2007 with Ivan Pavlov.

The news was made official today when Throbbing Gristle bandmates Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter tweeted: ‘Our dearest beautiful Sleazy left this mortal coil as he slept in peace last night.words cannot express our grief.’ Other artists, like Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor also took to Twitter to express their grief: ‘I awake to sad news. RIP Peter Christopherson – friend and huge inspiration.'”

 

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Prop 19

With a month to go before California voters decide whether to legalize marijuana, Proposition 19’s opponents have pinned their hopes on desperate arguments that illustrate the intellectual bankruptcy of the prohibitionist position. Unable to offer a persuasive moral justification for continuing to treat marijuana users and suppliers like criminals, the No on 19 crowd has tried to distract voters’ attention with several bright red herrings. Here are five of the smelliest:

[From Pot Prohibitionist Prevarications – Reason Magazine]

Moms Unite to Legalize Marijuana | NBC San Diego: “A group of local mothers who believe legalizing marijuana will help end the war on drugs rallied outside San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ office on Tuesday to encourage her to support Prop 19.

‘Prohibition has failed, and the war on drugs is really a war waged against individuals and their families, so mothers are leading the charge once again to end drug prohibition — marijuana prohibition — just as a group of mothers did in the 1930s to end alcohol prohibition, not because they loved drugs and alcohol but because we love our children,’ said Gretchen Burns Bergman, a co-Founder and executive director of A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment and Healing).

Regulating marijuana would mean that children would not have as much access to the drug and that police would be able to focus on other criminal matters, according to A New PATH.”

 

Neo-Nazi couple find out they’re Jewish – AOL News: ” Two Polish neo-Nazis who were childhood sweethearts and later became skinheads have discovered what for them is a shocking family secret: They’re actually Jewish.

Pawel and Ola, identified only by their first names, are the subject of a CNN documentary about Poles rediscovering their Jewish roots generations after their ancestors hid their religious identities to escape persecution during World War II.

A few years ago, Ola found out from Warsaw’s Jewish Historical Institute that both she and her husband are technically Jews. ‘It was unbelievable — it turned out that we had Jewish roots. It was a shock,’ she said.”

 

Chart Of The Day – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: “It’s easy as pie to generalize to millions of people the crimes of a few. We Catholics have had it done to us. And we can have it done to us again. So we should be bloody cautious about insane schemes to do it to 18 million fellow citizens.

The grotesque excuse ‘But the the first amendment is dead, and Islam killed it. There is no ‘freedom of speech’ or ‘freedom of religion’ with the threat of Muslim violence hanging over your head’ is rubbish. Cancelling the rights of 307 million people because you are, by your own admission, afraid is neither patriotism, nor courage, nor Christian fortitude. It is cowardice. And it is extra-special cowardice when you are ready to cancel your most precious national heritage because you are afraid of a speck.”

 

Big Alcohol Donates Money To Fight Legalization Of Pot: “One group that really doesn’t want the legalization of marijuana is big alcohol.

California Beer and Beverage Distributors, a group which includes Anheuser-Busch InBev, donated $10,000 last week to the campaign against Prop. 19 (via HuffPo).

Would marijuana legalization really cut into alcohol consumption?

Probably so. The interest group also includes Heineken, which knows from Amsterdam how legalization affects the market.

The real question is why haven’t pizza vendors and Netflix”

 

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