Century Blogs Posts for November, 2012

My one and only gamble

Nov 30, 2012 by Richard A. Kauffman

I did something totally irrational the other day, something that goes against my principles. I bought two Powerball tickets.

I knew the chances of winning were one in 175,223,510. The odds of becoming a movie star are better. But someone is going to have to win this thing eventually, I reasoned, and it might as well be me.

Friday digest

Nov 30, 2012

New today from the Century: Casting the Christmas pageant, year-end picks in fiction for children and youth, more.

Weed debates and root problems

Nov 29, 2012 by Amy Frykholm

I didn’t vote for Amendent 64, which legalized marijuana for recreational use in my home state of Colorado. I had mixed feelings about it. When marijuana was legalized for medical use in 2000, the effect on my small mountain community wasn’t something to celebrate. The majority of people who got licenses for medical marijuana were young men under the age of 34. At least legalization for recreational use will put a stop to that farce.

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