Vineland Today

[Robin Landseadel]

On Oct 29, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Ian Livingston wrote:

> I certainly agree that the DEA should have its ass removed and
> delivered back on a broken platter, but that's more because I think
> the whole DOJ and its cozies deserve the same treatment. It's a broken
> system. It doesn't serve the public good.

Pretty much on the same page there.

> But, really, I think Pynchon is much cleaner in his proofreading.

He'd better be, considering how infrequent his postings are. I've  
noticed that online posts tend to have more errors of spelling,  
grammar, logic -- far more than those postings that got more editorial  
massaging before going into print. This problem may simply be endemic  
in the age of Blogs 'n' Twitter.

> I know Tokatlian meant "no conventional war," and just didn't  
> proofread
> closely enough. It's precisely that hasty excitability that the
> wingnuts jump on in all their hasty excitability. I'd love to see all
> this presented in a glossy, well-appointed and carefully crafted
> manner that leaves those cowardly wingnuts no room for nit-picking.

I think we will see change on the ground before the coffee-table  
version comes out.

> It is correct to assert that the "war on drugs" is a complete  
> failure and
> that recreational drugs should be legal, productive commodities
> contributing to the economy instead of intolerable drains on both the
> economy and international relations. I'm just sayin' it needs to be
> carefully presented so the dupes for plutes have more trouble trashing
> the wording of the proposition.

Will do. However, I do believe the tipping point may be closer at hand  
than you think. If the real Drug War issues are simply delivered in a  
commonsensical dollars and cents fashion by the right wing, we no  
longer have to be over-concerned with the spewings of nutball leftists.

And don't you ever call my friends anything like that!