Digby and Michael Hawkins.
If the blog goes silent, you know the men in black suits have dragged me away, because nothing else could stop me from blogging at this point, including, quite obviously, sucking at it, lol.
Big Brother and His Giant Balls
Jesus, what balls.
You're not going to believe this.
I really, really hope Crooks & Liars has a clip of this.
Update: C&L doesn't have video of this, but they do have video of Bolton being booed at the U.N.
Hoo-boy.
Con(fidence) Man
In further proof that he’s either a walking void of ethics or out of his fucking mind, and likely both, the leader of the not-so-free world has declared his “complete confidence” in his top political advisor and corpulent pool boy, Karl Rove, currently under investigation for the possibility of having committed high treason. Said President Bottom, “Karl's got my complete confidence. He's a valuable member of my team.” Meanwhile, federal investigators continue to circle their wagons around Hot Karl and his collection of soiled tube socks, begging the question, which hovers unanswered around so very, very many of this administration’s decisions…why?
More on the War with Iraq Iran
As Yogi Berra would say, it’s just like déjà vu all over again (emphasis mine):
A major U.S. intelligence review has projected that Iran is about a decade away from manufacturing the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon, roughly doubling the previous estimate of five years, according to government sources with firsthand knowledge of the new analysis.Influenced by reality, in other words. Of course, that’s never stopped them before, now, has is it?
The carefully hedged assessments, which represent consensus among U.S. intelligence agencies, contrast with forceful public statements by the White House. Administration officials have asserted, but have not offered proof, that Tehran is moving determinedly toward a nuclear arsenal. The new estimate could provide more time for diplomacy with Iran over its nuclear ambitions. President Bush has said that he wants the crisis resolved diplomatically but that "all options are on the table."
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[The new National Intelligence Estimate] ordered by the National Intelligence Council in January, is the first major review since 2001 of what is known and what is unknown about Iran. Additional assessments produced during Bush's first term were narrow in scope, and some were rejected by advocates of policies that were inconsistent with the intelligence judgments.
One such paper was a 2002 review that former and current officials said was commissioned by national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley, who was then deputy adviser, to assess the possibility for "regime change" in Iran. Those findings described the Islamic republic on a slow march toward democracy and cautioned against U.S. interference in that process, said the officials, who would describe the paper's classified findings only on the condition of anonymity.
The new estimate takes a broader approach to the question of Iran's political future. But it is unable to answer whether the country's ruling clerics will still be in control by the time the country is capable of producing fissile material.
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In January, before the review, Vice President Cheney suggested Iranian nuclear advances were so pressing that Israel may be forced to attack facilities, as it had done 23 years earlier in Iraq.
In an April 2004 speech, John R. Bolton -- then the administration's point man on weapons of mass destruction and now Bush's temporarily appointed U.N. ambassador -- said: "If we permit Iran's deception to go on much longer, it will be too late. Iran will have nuclear weapons."
But the level of certainty, influenced by diplomacy and intelligence, appears to have shifted.
What’s totally unbelievable to me is that if I had replaced the dates and substituted Iraq for Iran throughout the article, and said it was from the lead-up to the Iraq war, no one would have doubted it for a moment. The Bushies are taking “history repeats itself” a bit too literally—even in spite of its being utterly unfathomable that they have a desire to repeat this disastrous little sliver of history.
Hopefully, the shift in “the level of certainty” about Iran’s nuclear capabilities will at least delay what may be the inevitable for awhile. I’d like to say that if they manage to convince the American people that going after Iran is a good idea, feeding them exactly the same line of bullshit that coerced support for the Iraq war, then the American people deserve anything they get…but the problem is that the war isn’t on American soil, and even if we turn Tehran into another Hiroshima, I fear that most Americans would barely lift their lids to notice.
Court Rules Gay Couples Owed Same Benefits as Straight Couples
No doubt this will be challenged, but it’s good news for now:
A country club that granted married couples benefits it denied to gay couples registered as domestic partners was in violation of California civil rights laws, the California Supreme Court ruled this morning.Good stuff!
The wide-ranging ruling means that any benefits that California businesses provide to married couples must be offered to registered domestic partners.
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[Justice Carlos R. Moreno] wrote that "permitting a business to discriminate against registered domestic partners by denying them benefits or services it extends to spouses violates the comparable public policy favoring domestic partnership."
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"For registered domestic partners, it means when they walk into a business, they are entitled to be treated the same way as spouses are," said Jon Davidson, legal director for Lambda Legal Defense Fund, which argued the case.
Note to social conservatives: Progress will not be stopped, no matter how much you wail. Even a few years ago, such a ruling was a dream at best, but the bravery and tenacity of the LGBT community has turned the tide, and there are plenty of us progressives, breeders, fag hags, fag magnets, metrosexuals, and plain old-fashioned believers in genuine equal rights who will continue to fight along side them until they have won every last battle for full equality. So give it up, pricks. You're never going to win this one because you're just bloody wrong.
Get to Know Your Blogmistress - Answers
Okay, here are the correct answers to the Get to Know Your Blogmistress Quiz (and btw, the winner was Adam Keller, with 6 correct - ! - with special recognition to Maurinsky for correctly answering the Extra Credit Question.)
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1. Which of the following bands has Shakespeare’s Sister never seen in concert?
A. The Smiths - It was a trick question. They broke up in 1987; I was only 13.
B. The Cure
C. New Kids on the Block - I even saw them twice!
D. Siouxsie and the Banshees
2. Which of the following is not a food that Shakespeare’s Sister refuses to eat?
A. Hotdogs
B. Eggs
C. Cabbage - I like cabbage; hotdogs, eggs, and peeps, however, you could not pay me to put in my mouth. Though in what Mr. Shakes deems one of the strangest phenomenons to which he has ever beared witness, I do like eggdrop soup.
D. Peeps
3. Which of the following movies has Shakespeare’s Sister never seen?
A. Taxi Driver
B. Mean Streets
C. Chinatown
D. Raging Bull - No explanation; just haven't seen it.
4. Which of the following is not something Shakespeare’s Sister said to a former fat fuck Republican coworker?
A. If you ever read my email again, I’ll kill you.
B. Your wife must be clinically insane. - She clearly was, but I never pointed it out to him. I did, however, threaten A, order C, and declare D. I really hated that guy. He was a boob-gawker.
C. Get your enormous head out of my sight.
D. You reek of booze.
5. Which of the following has Shakespeare’s Sister never done while drunk?
A. Called Britain on a friend’s regular landline and had a very expensive two-hour conversation. - Come on - I may be nuts, but I'm not rude!
B. Fell asleep in a friend’s bathroom with her bare foot against a radiator and woke up with second-degree burns on her sole.
C. Spent the entirety of her paycheck on pizzas, booze, and cigars for an entire floor of her university dorm.
D. Completely blown off an awards ceremony at a major business convention, sending her even more drunk underling in her stead, who then threw a punch at the boss after winning an award.
6. Which of the following has Shakespeare's Sister never done while tripping?
A. Asked a transvestite at the Melrose Diner to please put her breasts away.
B. Stared at a poster of Suede until Brett Anderson winked at her. - Heh, this one was actually Mr. Furious.
C. Gotten trapped at work and forced to work on an important project for the city. - As for the question as to why one trips at work, the plan was to take it about a half hour before we left, so by the time we got home, we'd already be in business. But about 10 minutes before we were due to leave, there was a big drama and we were stuck there for 3 more hours, working. Or trying to.
D. Deliberately freaked out herself and a friend by reading excerpts from The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers.
7. Which of the following has Shakespeare’s Sister never purchased as a gift for Mr. Shakes?
A. An A-Team lunchbox. - He loved him some A-Team!
B. A 19th-century Russian cigarette case engraved with an image of Tolstoy.
C. A pair of boxers covered in hearts and honey bees. - Melissa means honey bee in Greek. It was cheeky, not a genuine attempt at romance.
D. A signed copy of The English Patient. - Mr. Shakes and I actually bought this for a friend.
8. Which of the following has not been the name of one of Shakespeare’s Sister’s pets?
A. Matthew the Turtle
B. Bobby the Parakeet - Never owned a bird.
C. Teddy the Dog
D. Oscar the Cat
9. Which of the following is not a nickname of Mr. Shakes’ for Shakespeare’s Sister?
A. Bawheed - Scots for "ball head." My head is, according to Mr. Shakes, a perfect sphere.
B. Chunkles - A cross between chunk and chuckles.
C. Kabuffle - It was hard to come up with something totally nonsensical he doesn't call me.
D. Nushtelhead - Don't ask.
10. Which of the following is not a statement Shakespeare’s Sister would use to describe herself?
A. I’m easily tricked. - I thought this one would be a gimme.
B. I’m easily chilled. - I'm always cold.
C. I’m easily amused. - Pretty obvious.
D. I’m easily mistaken for a Campbell’s Soup Kid. - It's the round head. What can I say?
Thanks for playing!
Batty
Random admission: I totally dig bats. (In fact, I keep one in my belfry at all times.) When I was a kid, I wanted to be the world's foremost bat expert when I grew up. So I think this is really cool.
Caption This Photo
In tribute to King George’s decidedly undemocratic decision to reward a career’s worth of bad behavior by sending John Bolton to the UN as a recess appointment.
Each one of my balls is thiiiiiiiiiis big.
Speak Your Mind, Always
In the comments thread to Paul’s earlier post can be found this exchange, following a rather intense series of disgusted snark:
Nora: Come on guys. Tell us what you really think.
D: LOL! That's never a problem around here!
It’s so true—and thank goodness for it! In honor of all you wonderfully, unabashedly opinionated Shakers, this is for you, via SimianBrain:
Woof.
Some Kids Have All the Luck
The spending gap between the wealthiest and poorest Illinois school districts grew last year to the biggest difference in a decade, according to a published report.The disparity is, of course, due to property taxes being the primary funding source for public education. So kids who have the best start in life by being born to wealthy parents, which all but guarantees them all the educational tools money can buy, not to mention decent health care and three squares a day, are also fortunate enough to have the most funds spent on them per head by their public schools.
The gap between the richest and poorest districts was $19,361 per student during the 2003-2004 school year - about $4,000 dollars more than the prior school year, according to a Chicago Tribune analysis of state financial data.
For example, the small Rondout elementary district in Lake County spent the most money on its students with $23,799 per pupil. Meanwhile, Tazewell County's Central School District 51 spent $4,438 dollars per student last school year, according to the report in Monday's Tribune.
In a related news item, schools across the country are providing “school lunches” over the summer, too, so the poorest students can maintain a healthy level of nutrition when not being properly fed by the school lunch programs available to needy kids during the school year.
Here’s the problem with social Darwinism—though it may be intended to “starve the beast” of government-funded programs and essentially expects the poorest citizens to sink or swim, thereby eventually ridding the country of endemic abject poverty one way or another, it simply doesn’t work. The underclass actually grows, as more people on the edge fall off of it, and local governments, whose members don’t have the luxury of apathy provided by distance, are forced to make choices about how to spend their shoestring budgets—and when faced with the choice of slashing a budget to keep kids fed, who with a conscience, who among those who must look hungry children in the eye each day in their towns, will opt for smaller government?
If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, the Bush administration ought to get real serious about how strong our national chain is, because the weakest of our number aren’t getting any stronger thanks to their bullshit policies.
Wingnuts Give Us Another Reason to Think They’re Idiots
Yeah, I know—read any one of their blogs any day of the week, but this one really is kind of a doozy. Patrick at Yelladog’s got the scoop. All I can say is I have no friggin’ clue how anyone could believe that was real, nor, if it were, how anyone could justify it as evidence of British "common sense." The only thing it’s evidence of is the British sense of humor, you total rubes.
Bolton In; Fitzgerald Out?
We’re already about as annoyed as it gets anyway, right? Might as well double the bad news.
The Chicago Tribune via Spontaneous Arising:
Former U.S. Sen. Peter Fitzgerald said Wednesday he believes there is mounting political pressure to oppose the reappointment of U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald this fall, given his aggressive prosecution of government corruption in Illinois.As Michael noted—yeah, I’m sure this has a lot to do with what Patrick Fitzgerald is doing in Illinois and nothing to do with what he’s doing in Washington, like, oh, investigating who outed Valerie Plame, especially since the trail he’s on seems to keep leading him right back to the White House. (As a side note, for those who don’t know, Peter Fitzgerald, the former senator, is a Republican—and opted not to run after his first term (thereby setting up the infamous Barack Obama-Alan Keyes match-up) citing problems with the Republican leadership. He’s a pretty fair guy, and I doubt this is hyperbole.)
The former senator questioned whether House Speaker Dennis Hastert, the state's top Republican, would support the prosecutor when President Bush decides whether to extend his term in Chicago.
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"I'd be pleasantly surprised if Speaker Hastert recommended Patrick Fitzgerald for reappointment," the former senator said in a telephone interview, echoing comments he made to WGN-TV Wednesday.
"But I'm beginning to sense that a lot of people, a lot of criminals, may hope that October brings them a new U.S. attorney in Chicago, one perhaps a little bit more malleable and acceptable to influence from leading Republicans and leading Democrats."
Is it just me, or does anyone else think there’s a conflict of interests in allowing the boss of men who are under investigation for orchestrating a leak be the deciding factor in whether the investigator’s term is extended?
Rhetorical. Sigh.
A Letter
Dear female students at the University of Wisconsin,
Your state legislature has decided that if you should get raped, your attacker’s potential progeny are more important than you are. Not only will you not have access to emergency abortifacients; you won’t even be counseled about them. Considering that one out of every four college women is raped during her university experience (and in my circle of friends, it was 50%), I’d say you might want to start filling out those transfer papers. Best of luck at your new school.
Love,
Shakespeare’s Sister
I'm getting goddamned tired of waiting.
It's an effective tactic. Not a very clever or admirable one, but effective.
- Bush comes up with a crazy scheme and/or Bush is accused of a wrongdoing.
- There is outspoken opposition to his plan and/or people demand answers and investigations.
- Bush ignores everything, remains silent, and waits.
- Bush gets what he wants and/or problem vanishes.
It happens time and again, and now it's happened with John Bolton, the worst possible person to appoint as Ambassador to the United Nations. I'm not going to get into the reasons here, as most of you know all these reasons anyway and that's not really the point of this rant.
In a particularly infantile and pathetic move, Bush once again simply waited out the problem until he could skip around the system and get what he wanted. Blocked by Democrats and non-crazy Republicans, Bush simply waited until Congress went into recess, and appointed Bolton on his own.
WASHINGTON -
President Bush sidestepped the Senate and installed embattled nominee John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations on Monday, ending a five-month impasse with Democrats who accused Bolton of abusing subordinates and twisting intelligence to fit his conservative ideology.
"This post is too important to leave vacant any longer, especially during a war and a vital debate about UN reform," Bush said. He said Bolton had his complete confidence.
Bush put Bolton on the job in a recess appointment — an avenue available to the president when the Congress is in recess. Under the Constitution, a recess appointment during the lawmakers' August break would last until the next session of Congress, which begins in January 2007.
I'm getting really goddamned sick and tired of this.
I'm sick of waiting.
I'm sick and fucking tired of Bush never commenting on his mistakes, remaining silent when confronted with serious accusations about impeachable offenses and openly showing his contempt for people that dare question him.
And then getting away with it.
He always gets away with it. Always always always. And it's driving me out of my ever-lovin' skull.
Even with his horrible approval ratings. Even with thousands of Americans coming home in boxes. Even when his bald-faced lies are PROVEN to be lies. We sit around and nothing happens.
No WMD found in Iraq? No problem, just hide and hedge until you can wave around some purple fingers! The Downing Street Memo? Just blur the facts and wait for the next distraction. Whoops, Karl Rove got caught committing a felony. Just stall and wait; there's an ongoing investigation, we can't do anything right now. Wait... Rove who?
Voter fraud. Ignoring warnings that led to 9/11. Billions lost in Iraq. Torture.
Wait, and soon, everyone will forget.
Well, I'm sick of waiting. When the fuck are Americans going to stand up and demand that they stop being fed big heaping shovelfuls of bullshit every goddamned day? When are they going to stop rolling over and accepting the lies and excuses? I'm tired of Bush stalling on deadly serious matters until they slide into the memory hole. I want answers. I want action.
I want answers on the Downing Street Memo, and action taken. Now.
I want answers on Rove, and action taken. Now.
I want something done about the lies and crimes this Administration and President have wallowed in, and I want it done yesterday.
Because Bush is about to take another five week vacation.
That, my friends, is a long fucking time.
And there's nothing Bush loves more than a long stall.
More at Tbogg.
(If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cross-post...)
Novak Defends His “Integrity as a Journalist” – LOL!
Integrity vacuum and caterpillar afficionado Robert Novak has crawled out of his dank, fetid lair to pen a nifty new column in defense of the journalistic integrity he deludes himself he has, proving once again that to call him a Douchebag of Liberty is to insult douchebags; at least they have a purpose. To demonstrate that he is not only super-duper integrified but also wicked smart, he notes: “I never would have written those sentences if Harlow, then-CIA Director George Tenet or anybody else from the agency had told me that Valerie Plame Wilson's disclosure would endanger herself or anybody.” This, while admitting he was aware she was a covert agent working on weapons proliferation. But if anyone had told him that doing something that prevented her from doing her job—you know, protecting the country—was wrong, then he surely wouldn’t have done it. I guess he’s kind of like a dog who will eat its own vomit, gobble up another animal’s shit like it’s a four-star entrée, or roll around in a decaying carcass unless someone intervenes.
That’s Why They Call Him the King, Baby
King of Zembla’s covering two really important issues that I highly recommend you check out. First is a story about reports that National Guard units in multiple states may have formed secret domestic surveillance units similar to the one that was recently exposed as part of California’s National Guard. If such a program was surreptitiously started after 9/11, it could violate the federal statute that prevents domestic surveillance by any agency aside from the FBI, and only then with demonstrable cause. This is a very troubling development indeed.
Secondly, the esteemed Simbaud looks at more information being released about potential vote fraud in the 2004 election. Yeesh.
So, how free you feeling today, Shakers? Domestic spies, rigged elections… I sure hope when President Bush is through spreading freedom all over the rest of the world, he’s got enough left in the tub to give us a schmear, too.
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia Dies
BBC story here.
I'm not even going to pretend I know what this means for our relationship (such as it is) with Saudi Arabia. I have no idea, although I think his brother's been running the joint for awhile since Fahd had a stroke or something, so maybe it won't make a lick of difference.
Looks Like It’s Going to Be One of Those Weeks
According to the AP, Bush is reportedly going to appoint Bolton today.
Frustrated by Democrats, President Bush will circumvent the Senate on Monday and install embattled nominee John Bolton to be ambassador to the United Nations, a senior administration official said.Whatever. I’m so not surprised in the slightest, and yet I am still disgusted to the maximum.
Bush has the power to fill vacancies without Senate approval while Congress is in recess. Under the Constitution, a recess appointment during the lawmakers' August break would last until the next session of Congress, which begins in January 2007.
I am the walrus.
The Gipper’s Heir
Many of Bush’s most fervent supporters love to see Bush as Ronald Regan’s heir apparent—a straight-talkin’, no-nonsense cowboy who draws a hard line when dealing with perceived external threats to Americans and who isn’t afraid to claim both God and the flag for his own. Never did the comparisons flow so freely as when Reagan died last year, and while the Right waxed rhapsodic about the man who carried on their torch, the Left drew unflattering comparisons between the two administrations’ soaring deficits, cynical pandering to conservative evangelicals, and ignoring of a deepening AIDS crisis—Reagan’s blind eye turned to America; Bush’s to Africa.
Reading Newsweek’s cover story of their August 8 issue this morning, “America’s Most Dangerous Drug,” I realized that there was yet another comparison that begged to be made. As Reagan spent much of his administration ignoring (and, indeed, exploiting) the chronic problem of cocaine and crack use in America, his best stab at combating the problem an ineffectual campaign summed up in three words: Just Say No, Bush steadfastly insists on making marijuana the centerpiece of his war on drugs, while methamphetamine ravages America from sea to shining sea.
The dubious hook upon which the administration hangs its dogged focus on marijuana is the oft-cited assertion that pot is a gateway drug, even though studies have shown convincing evidence to the contrary.
The Bush administration has made marijuana the major focus of its anti-drug efforts, both because there are so many users (an estimated 15 million Americans) and because it considers pot a "gateway" to the use of harder substances. "If we can get a child to 20 without using marijuana, there is a 98 percent chance that the child will never become addicted to any drug," says White House Deputy Drug Czar Scott Burns, of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. "While it may come across as an overemphasis on marijuana, you don't wake up when you're 25 and say, 'I want to slam meth!' " But those fighting on the front lines say the White House is out of touch. "It hurts the federal government's credibility when they say marijuana is the No. 1 priority," says Deputy District Attorney Mark McDonnell, head of narcotics in Portland, Ore., which has been especially hard hit. Meth, he says, "is an epidemic and a crisis unprecedented."Meth users are flooding into American rehab programs and jails; so pervasive in the problem in some areas that local newspapers are beginning to run meth round-ups. The Mail Tribune in Jackson County, Oregon compiles weekly local meth stats to demonstrate the effects of meth on the community. The July 6 edition includes:
Arrests — Nine people were arrested last week and lodged in the Jackson County Jail on meth-related charges. Seven were arrested for possessing meth; one was arrested for possessing, manufacturing and delivering meth; and one was arrested for possessing meth and manufacturing and delivering the controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school. Four arrests were in conjunction with other criminal charges.Meth babies are the new crack babies, as 40% of child-welfare officials surveyed by the National Association of Counties reported an increase in out-of-home placements last year due to meth. Social services, law enforcement agencies, and drug rehabilitation programs struggle mightily against a lack of resources to combat the exploding problem of methamphetamine use, related crime, and meth manufacture, the latter of which is also of grave concern for the environment, with five pounds of toxic waste resulting for every pound of meth produced.
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Child welfare — The local child welfare office of the state’s department of human services removed 12 children from six homes last week and placed them into protective custody, in part, due to meth use in the family.
While these problems exponentially multiply in every region of the country, from rural areas to urban centers, the Bush administration drags its feet:
The drug czar's office hasn't made any legislative proposals, or weighed in on any of those coming from Capitol Hill; officials there say they want to get a better sense of what works before throwing their weight around. Members of Congress whose districts have been ravaged by the drug are forcing the issue: the ranks of the House's bipartisan "meth caucus" have swelled from just four founding members in 2000 to 118 today, and the group has been fighting the administration's efforts to cut federal spending on local law enforcement.When the completely batshit insane Mark Souder sounds like the voice of reason, you know this is a serious, serious problem.
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On the Hill last week, the deputy drug czar walked into a buzz saw, as members vented their frustration over his office's level of attention to the problem. "This isn't the way you tackle narcotics," said GOP Rep. Mark Souder of Indiana. "How many years do we have to see the same pattern at an increasing rate in the United States until there's something where we have concrete recommendations, not another cotton-pickin' meeting? ... This committee is trying desperately to say, 'Lead!' "
Meth is taking its toll on Americans—those who fight the Sisyphean task of fighting the exploding number of addicts and the addicts themselves, who require more time in intensive outpatient or residential drug treatment than currently occurs.
Meth effects can last up to six months for just one use, and the drug can do greater damage to a person's physical, behavioral and thinking functions than many other illicit drugs or alcohol. For this reason, it takes much longer to treat a person with a meth addiction than it does to treat someone with a cocaine or heroin problem. This time factor is also one reason why so many meth treatments currently fail.
Most adult residential drug treatment programs -- the essential first stop for breaking an addiction -- have been shortened from 45 or 30 days to only 10 to 14. The problem is even worse for adolescents. Residential treatment programs for that age group have "dried up" due to budget cuts, Hall said.
A former meth user whose before and after mug shots are used by law enforcement officials to illustrate the devastating effects of methamphetamine addiction. These pictures were taken only three years apart. In the second picture, she is only 42 years old, is 40 pounds lighter than the earlier, pre-addiction picture, and has only two teeth left.
Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Jim Talent (R-MO) have introduced a bill to begin to address the problem, calling for strict restrictions on the sale of pseudoephedrine-based products, which are used to cook up meth. It’s a start—and it’s surely a nonpartisan issue if ever I saw one, one which we can all get behind. But the next step is having our president make this a priority—and ensure that adequate funding is given to those on the front lines in the battle against meth. Reagan’s inadequate Just Say No campaign failed to reduce the use and trafficking of illegal drugs; the problem actually worsened. Bush’s determination to deal with the meth problem by sticking his head in the sand will elicit the same result. If he doesn’t pull his head out and pay attention, it will be another less than flattering legacy he shares with the Gipper.
Must-Read
Pam on skin, the color of money, and the importance of talking about race. It’s really great. Go check it out.
