The Agitator.com is shocked that anti-marijuana forces of the world claim dope smokers can’t get a job. I think most of them end up blogging, but regardless — they’ve started quite a list of successful pot smokers.
Here’s my challenge to Agitator readers, bloggers, and others: In this comments thread, let’s compile a [...]

From FDR to Jimmy Carter, when the President settled in behind his desk in the Oval Office, he settled into a Gunlocke Washington chair.
For as low as $3000, would-be world leaders can also place their rear in the Gunlocke chair. It doesn’t really appear to give enough lower-back support for an infirm old man [...]

Sometimes you are surfing the internet and run across something so frigging gosh-darn awesome you slap yourself in the head and say “I wish I was doing that!” Well, I wish I was working on projects with Pat Regan at Vulcania Submarine.
Having stumbled across his site, linked from a scubaboard forum, I was amazed. Regan [...]

Journalist Nir Rosen has spent years in Iraq reporting the war, lending him a reputation that warranted an invitation to speak to the Senate about his experiences. When Joe Biden asked Rosen for advice about the United State’s next moves in Iraq, Rosen responded, “As a journalist, I’m uncomfortable advising an imperialist power about how [...]

Charleton Heston, 84, has died.
Charlton Heston, 84; actor played epic figures [LATimes.com]

Sometimes, after being swamped with movies like I Am Legend (which was so far off from the book as to be telling a different story) and whatever that Cloverfield thing was, it becomes easy to forget how awesome the art of movie-making can be. Then a friend IMs and tells you to turn on [...]

Seems Belstaff, an Italian clothes-maker, decided to name a line after Steve McQueen and use his image to promote it. Perhaps asking the family would have been a good idea.
Stealing from the King of Cool: not cool.
Chadwick McQueen and The Terry McQueen Testamentary Trust say in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan [...]

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Mambo pioneer Israel “Cachao” Lopez dies [Reuters]

From the Hollywood Reporter:
The “Mr. Show” duo of Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are returning to HBO with “David’s Situation,” a new comedy pilot starring Cross.
Odenkirk and Cross co-wrote the project, which will star Cross as himself. He leaves Hollywood to move into a suburban, gated community where he has two roommates, a right-wing conservative [...]

You knew it was coming… enjoy your colored eggs and chocolate bunnies.