just in case...

just in case anyone needed another reason for taxing drugs and regulating their production instead of criminalizing them, the glasgow anthrax scare should suffice to demonstrate that not maintaining oversight over the supply chain is a very bad thing.

(do i really need to remind everyone that portugal let go of the war on drugs, and have not suffered as a result? probably.)

and speaking of regulation: artist manipulation is rife in the music industry. the producers are not being rewarded fairly for their works, and it's not because of piracy: piracy has recently been correlated with higher revenue. we really need to wrap our heads around the internet.

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after a run yesterday evening, pg and i went to the bloom bar to hear mindless echoes perform, stopping on the way at yamisan for dinner. both were delightful.

now that i've slept late - the last hour or so in bed spent trying to make my mental block (possibly caused by stress) explode with a failed attempt at meditation - and fired off a bunch of important emails, i think i'm about ready to get stuck in to finishing a paper that just doesn't want to go anywhere. i think my biggest problem is brevity: i tend to say what needs to be said in about half the minimum length of the paper. so instead of trying to say more, i'm about to give up and stretch my text. hopefully it won't make it completely crap.