Pop Quiz Answers

I found the diversity of political spectrum very interesting here. Hope you do as well.

Sarah Palin “We need to prioritize our law enforcement efforts, and if somebody’s gonna smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody else any harm, then perhaps there are other things that our cops should be looking at to engage in….”

Melissa Etheridge “It’s wrong to arrest adults for using marijuana, and it’s even more wrong to allow gangs and cartels to profit from selling marijuana.”

Snoop Dog “If marijuana were legal, t]here would be less high-speed chases, less robberies, less crime. Go to Amsterdam or the Netherlands where it is legal and you see that the crime rate is nonexistent.”

Pat Robertson “I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol.”

Glenn Beck “I think it’s about time we legalize marijuana.”

Aaron Sorkin “It’s a good idea.”

Rachel Maddow “[W]e’ve got a new drug czar to continue waging the decades-old drug war, which maybe we should start thinking about differently since it is decades old and we don’t appear to be anywhere near winning it.”

Rick Perry “[If] you want to go somewhere where you can smoke medicinal weed, then you ought to be able to do that.”

Source: Marijuana Majority (which has links to where the quotations were taken from)

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Going for Memorable

Kate showed me this video of an an audition.

Not just any audition. One where a comedian with a character as a geek gamer crashes a music video dance audition and acts like a goofball (and specifically asks for a rules exception). Despite no formal dance training (but impressive dance skill despite that), he gets the gig.

It’s about rules, about expertise, about genius, about knowing when to throw away something perfectly usable and go for memorable instead.

There are a lot of solid, good dancers in the audition. No question. One comment, though. When people ask what reading slush is like, I point to the guy who does a solo right before Keith at around 47 seconds in. Imperfect execution, some solid grasp of concepts, but not able to stand out from the crowd.

For both of these, may be NSFW due to adult themes, but worth watching when you can.

And the resulting video, clearly re-written to take advantage of their new dancer…..

Originally published at deirdre.net. You can comment here or there.