Daily Archives: 04.20.2016
2016 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY: “The Many Reasons People Love Bernie Sanders” ☮
BOLIVIA: “Bolivian Commuters Soar Through the Sky” ☮
BILL MOYERS: “Bill Moyers: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics” ☮
On the eve of the New York primary, Bill Moyers sat down to talk with Rick Shenkman, the historian, editor and publisher of the indispensable website History News Network. Shenkman tells Bill that it’s the voters and their emotions, not the candidates and their ideas, that will determine the outcome of the election in November.
Shenkman’s latest book is ‘Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics.’
BOOKS: “Joshua Prager: Wisdom from Great Writers on Every Year of Life” / TED Talks ☮
As different as we humans are from one another, we all age along the same great sequence, and the shared patterns of our lives pass into the pages of the books we love. In this moving talk, journalist Joshua Prager explores the stages of life through quotations from Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, William Trevor and other great writers, set to visualizations by graphic designer Milton Glaser. “Books tell us who we’ve been, who we are, who we will be, too,” Prager says.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “How to Debate Hillary Clinton Supporters” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur, Jimmy Dore, John Iadarola, and Ana Kasparian ☮
HAPPY 420 DAY: “Happy 4/20! Here’s Some Shit to Read While You’re Stoned” / Mother Jones ☮

Happy 4/20, all you potheads. So, just wondering, have you ever really looked at all these stories we’ve written on your favorite subject? If not, what better time than now?
- A map of where you can smoke legally
- Behind the pricey ad campaign pushing “craft, small-batch, sustainable” pot
- How to get a pot card without really trying
- A veteran pot grower’s back-to-the-land adventure
- All cannabis start-up parties should be like this one
- An interview with marijuana visionary Steve DeAngelo
- The conference where guys in suits pitch marijuana start-ups to other guys in suits
- Why techies love weed
- How much electricity did it take to grow that joint?
- How high is too high to drive?
- The price of weed in every state
- Your marijuana could be killing this cute, furry animal.
- The farmers market that sells cannabis
- The fight that broke out the last time California tried to legalize pot
- An aerial tour of Emerald Triangle pot farms
- The New Dealers: A recessionary tale for 4/20
h/t: Mother Jones
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Top U.S. & World Headlines — April 20, 2016” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
HAPPY 420 DAY: “Hippie Music and Pictures” / “420 Revealed: A Day of Peace” ☮
HIGH TIMES Editor-in-Chief Steven Hager visits ABC News to explain the origin and significance of 420 in this 2002 interview.