Florida Man Charged With Picking Magic Mushrooms While Carrying An Alligator

OVIEDO, Florida -- A Florida man was arrested along with three others last Sunday by a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation officer for allegedly picking hallucinogenic mushrooms in the Little Big Econ State Wildlife Management Area in Seminole County, Florida while also carrying a 2-foot-long alligator in his backpack.

http://news.brevardtimes.com/2013/06/florida-man-charged-with-picking-magic.html?m=1

Florida Man never ceases to amaze me!

Jerry Garcia's 'Wolf' guitar sells for $1.9M at New York auction

NEW YORK (AP) -- A guitar that Jerry Garcia played everywhere from San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom to Egypt's Great Pyramids fetched over $1.9 million at an auction Wednesday night.

The Grateful Dead frontman's guitar -- named Wolf -- was sold at the Brooklyn Bowl, a bowling alley, restaurant and music venue. The sale price includes the buyer's premium. The proceeds are earmarked for the Montgomery, Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center.

"I've been a fan of The Dead since I was a kid, and playing this iconic guitar over the past 15 years has been a privilege," said Pritzker. "But the time is right for Wolf to do some good."

SPLC President Richard Cohen said the organization is grateful Pritzker "is willing to part with this piece of music history to support the SPLC's mission fighting hate and bigotry."

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/06/jerry_garcias_wolf_guitar_sell.html

An anonymous matching donation to the SPLC brought the total amount to $3.0 million.

The Trump defense:

"Oh, come on! Come oooooon..."

So how long until GoFundMe is our nation's leading health care provider?

A Steady Decline in Bankruptcies

Jerry Garcia's guitar could bring in $1 million for SPLC

Jerry Garcia's custom-made guitar, called Wolf, is truckin' to auction.

Guernsey's says the Grateful Dead frontman's guitar will be offered May 31 at New York's Brooklyn Bowl.

The proceeds will go to the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center .

It's being sold by "devoted Deadhead" Daniel Pritzker. The philanthropist, musician and film director bought it in 2002 at Guernsey's for $789,500. It could exceed $1 million this time.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/05/jerry_garcias_guitar_could_bri.html

Does the water in Flint Michigan count as a pre-existing condition?

Yale Republicans taunt hunger-striking union workers with a barbecue

Earlier this week, eight Yale graduate teachers began a hunger strike to protest the university’s refusal to bargain with their union. Yale’s College Republicans responded by taunting the hunger strikers with smoked meat.

Representatives from the Yale Republicans refused to comment to a reporter from the New Haven Register, which was the first to report this story, before that reporter was removed from the site of the barbecue by campus police.

The underlying dispute between the university and the union involves some fairly novel questions involving how graduate employee unions should be organized. Last August, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recognized that graduate teaching and research assistants may organize and collectively bargain under a federal law protecting unions.

Aaron Greenberg, a political science graduate student and union leader, meanwhile, claims that the university is trying to delay negotiations “until Donald Trump appoints new members of the National Labor Relations Board.”

https://thinkprogress.org/yale-republicans-taunt-hunger-striking-union-workers-with-a-barbecue-18b9ea1099d8

"Hail Sagan"

Ted Nugent, Kid Rock and Sarah Palin walk into the Oval Office...

There's a punchline somewhere in there.