The idea that certain bath salts can be used in a pipe as a substitute for hash or crack is slowly trickling upwards from the drug culture underground to the mainstream media and that story will soon be getting the attention of the assignment editors at the various evening news broadcasts and that, in turn, means that the chess match clock will soon be measuring the conservative reaction time. Once conservatives realize (by doing a Google news search for "smoking bath salts"?) that it is a legitimate current events problem topic, Uncle Rushbo and his wannabe imitators will be (like a pit crew changing all four tires) expected to instantaneously produce irrefutable Republican talking points asserting that the new outlaw fad proves that the Democrat in the Oval Office has performed poorly.
Objecting to too much government is one thing, but letting bath salts be sold without legal guidelines is incomprehensible. Write to your Senators and congressional representatives and demand action now! Or better yet, show up at a townhall meeting and, when you are sure the TV cameras are rolling, ask what will be done about the bath salts problem. One Congresswoman in Florida is ready to take action. Why are other states lagging behind?
Does that make it sound like the Summer of '68 isn't really over yet? Well put this in your Magritte style pipe and smoke it: some imaginative scoundrels have discovered that if they go through the paperwork to be accredited as a patient in pain with a legitimate need for medical marijuana, they can turn around and sell their "medicine" at a slight profit to some people who may not want pesky paperwork in existence linking them to the "devil weed." (Would it be a "cop out" for us to fail to provide an example of people who might prefer to remain "off the books" as far as being a legitimate registered pot head is concerned?)
Older nostalgia prone assignment desks might like that flashback topic, too. Think any one of them would be too embarrassed to steal an idea from "the World's Laziest Journalist"? Me neither too.
The concept of being a topic rustler brings us to another flashback topic: At the Berkeley 7 flashback film series, we saw for the first time last night, the classic film "Scarface" starring Al Pacino. All the gangster activities called "rub-out," "whack," or "hit" at various times in the annals of the gangster genre movies reminded us that the President seems to be imitating the gangster mentality with his foreign policy. Col. Qaddafi is becoming an annoyance? Bomb the living daylights out of his living compound. Send "the boys" over to bin Laden's place and have them rub him out.
Will Qaddafi's and bin Laden's gang be able to tell the ref: "I know where I am. I know what round it is. Don't stop the fight!" or will they get a TKO?
Can't you just picture President Obama telling his posse: "Everything north of State Street is O'Banion's; we got Afghanistan and now Libya."? Were bin Laden's last words: "Mother of God, is this the end of Ricco?" Or did he snarl: "Top of the world, ma!"? Did the Seals yell: "Osama, say hello to my little friend!"?
For over ten year, the World's Laziest Journalist has been motivated to write political punditry for various online sites by a "Man of La Mancha" delusion that it was worth while to get up at 6 a.m. pound out some words such as a column that ridiculed the contention that some dumb aluminum tube was irrefutable evidence that the invasion of some country was imperative and then make the effort to get online and post it. There was always the hope that the next column would (somehow) hit a nerve and cause all of America to question the Bush junta's sanity.
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