With Take Two on KPCC. A pretty reasonable discussion, I thought.
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out. Books: Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken) When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993) Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989) UCLA Homepage Curriculum Vitae Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com View all posts by Mark Kleiman
I hate to be a PITA, but … transcript???? I am a bit of a fogy. I do not like to be made to watch things, or be left out. Text … text is the thing.
Please pretend that I post this comment every time one of you puts up an audio or video bit.
Sorry!!!
NCG, I, too, prefer text. I’m often reading in environments that make audio and video inconvenient. I frequently end up skipping the video offerings.
Still, I know there are people whose preferences are the opposite of mine.
It rather fascinates me that you feel justified in demanding that someone take the time to create a transcript for you. It seems to me very like the person who is offered a piece of white cake by a generous host only to reject it because he doesn’t like white cake and then follows with a demand for a piece of chocolate cake instead. I suspect you would realize in that circumstance that the appropriate thing to do would be to graciously decline the offer of the thing you don’t like, even though you might feel left out when those around you are all eating cake.
Why does this seem different to you?