Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Best Paris Hilton coverage (Actually, in my mind, it's the only Paris Hilton coverage that was ever worth watching.) Tommy Chong discusses the appropriate "punishment" for Paris on the Colbert Report tonight. (It'll probably be available at Comedy Central later.) Tommy always cracks me up. At one point, Colbert asks him "Are you high right now?" and Tommy replies "... Of course!" Update: here's the video! Further update: Tanya defends Paris Hilton's honor from Tommy's lechery. I'd agree if it wasn't so clear that it was simply Tommy play-riffing on Paris' intentionally self-promoted reputation. 10:58:28 PM |  drug policy | Links | permalink | comment []

Too funny... Tom Angell and SSDP have filed a Freedom of Information Request to get copies of ads the government ran a few years ago connecting drugs with terrorism. Now, just the notion of the government even resisting the dissemination of advertisements that they publicly ran with taxpayer money is bizarre enough. The only possible justification that I can think of is that releasing them would harm national security because it would offer proof to the rest of the world that this country is run by idiots. (Come to think of it, hiding corruption, lawbreaking, or stupidity seem to be the main reasons for government secrecy these days.) This kicker is the typo in the letter Tom got from the White House, saying that since the General Counsel is predisposed until June 19, he'll have to wait 200 years for a response. Update: stranger and stranger. Talk about defensive... Is the ONDCP starting to lose it completely? Tom reports that an ONDCP staffer apparently read the blog, is upset for having been made fun of (calling the post "childish"), and ominously threatened "if you're going to play games like this, you can expect the same games to be played on you." Best response to that from crimethink at Hit and Run: What, is the ONDCP going to post the SSDP's typos? Or do they have something more sinister in mind? Better be careful with your spelling, Tom. 2:40:46 PM |  drug policy | Links | permalink | comment []

How to lower prices of consumer goods... Over at TownHall, Debra Saunders writes about failed Plan Colombia: The New York Times reported last year that anti-drug planes have to fumigate three times as much land as they did in 2002 to kill the same amount of coca. And for what? An endgame that produces more cocaine than the world wants -- and at cheaper prices? [...] "Can you tell me any other product that has gone down in price in the last few years?" Curtis asked -- and you can't include technological products that change. Think milk or bread or beef. Those consumer prices are not falling. It takes a Washington-born government program -- designed to drive up the price of cocaine -- to drive down the cost of cocaine. The one thing drug warriors never demand of an American anti-drug program is that it actually work. 11:51:18 AM |  drug policy | Links | permalink | comment []