DearSteve – Over on Huffington Post Ryan Grim has posted an unpublished letter from LSD inventor Albert Hofmann that he sent to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, asking him to support a proposed study of LSD-assisted psychotherapy. Hello from Albert Hofmann. I understand from media accounts that you feel LSD helped you creatively in your development of Apple computers and your personal spiritual quest. I’m interested in learning more about how LSD was useful to you.

According to the Huffington Post, new questions are surfacing about political intrigue at the U.S. Justice Department after former White House political strategist Karl Rove provided his long-awaited responses to House Judiciary Committee staff Tuesday about allegations that he pressured…

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is rumored to have dropped a little acid in his day, and apparently Albert Hoffmann, the inventor of LSD, knew it. In fact, Hoffmann reportedly wrote a letter to Jobs asking if the he’d be willing to donate some cash to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies , an organization dedicated to investigating the psychological and medical benefits of psychedelic drugs.

Never-Before-Published Letter From LSD-Inventor Albert Hofmann to Apple CEO Steve Jobs | Huffington Post

(Reposted from The Huffington Post ) In my work as a progressive communicator I, like so many of us, am striving to navigate the volatile and rapidly changing media landscape with an open, creative mind and a smile on my face. And as I explore how to turn what at times does indeed feel like a national ‘crisis’ into an ‘opportunity’, I can’t help but think of my mom. Like many moms, mine was extraordinarily resourceful and multi-tasked with precision.

Some things have to be seen and head to be believed. [Via Huffington Post.] I’m writing something longer that will incorporate this, but I was so blown away that I wanted to go ahead and post it now. I’ll connect it up to some other things in a bit. Marrying other species? Wait a minute. Other species ? How did we get here? This moment of Fox News Madness was brought to us c/o a Swedish (thus the reference to the Swede’s “pure society”) on how marriage can cut the risk of Alzheimer’s .

Item #1: Dear Summer To: Summer, c/o Mother Nature From: Meredith Dear Summer, Words cannot express how disappointed I’ve been with you in recent weeks. You’ve been dour and temperamental and unpredictable. You’ve been behaving like an insane toddler. Or Gov. Mark Sanford, whichever analogy works for you. For weeks on end, you’ve given us gray days where the temps don’t exceed the 60s (sometimes many daylight hours have lingered in the 50s), not to mention the rain and the hail.

Gov. Sarah PalinNot what you’d expect to find on Huffington Post, but Bonnie Fuller writes there that outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin shouldn’t be counted out now, and especially not because she is resigning as governor.Fuller writes:In fact, announcing her resignation on the eve of Independence Day wasn’t done so the deed could slide under the radar of a long holiday weekend.No way. She did it BECAUSE it WAS Independence Day and she wasn’t really announcing a resignation.

The attorney general of Massachusetts filed a federal complaint against DOMA yesterday.  They are suing on constitutional grounds, saying that married same-sex couples in Massachusetts are unfairly being denied the same federal benefits that married opposite-sex couples enjoy. BOSTON — Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, sued the U.S. government Wednesday over a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Remember the movie Minority Report with Tom Cruise?  There were some creepy, big brother themes throughout, but there were also some very cool things like billboards that interacted with the characters. “John Anderton, you could use a Guinness right now”, chimed the advertisement at Cruise’s character as he went by.