Slog - Comments on This Week on Drugs http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81 Joe Six Pack: Makes a dashing re-entrance into the American lexicon, thanks to Sarah Palin. The term suggests that average Americans go home every night and drink an entire fucking six pack. Or that they look like this guy... Please Make a Note of It: Don’t call police to your house about a burglary if you’re growing pot inside. Some Crazy Shit: Ecstasy smuggled under toilet paper. Zogby: We’ve lost the drug war, voters say. Three in four likely voters (76 percent) believe the U.S. war on drugs is failing, a sentiment that cuts across the political spectrum — including... Copyright 2008 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:02:09 -0800 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:10:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by elenchos "The drug war is failing" and "we've lost the drug war" are not equivalent. Which is probably why only 1/3 of those who say it's failing say we should legalize drugs.

I'm just saying. Semantically. Maybe a majority does think we've lost the drug war, but not according to the quote you've got there.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163316 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163316 Drugs Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:39:32 -0800 Comment by mike way to wave that white flag of surrender and that is not what our paramilitary forces and contras need to hear today, that's for sure.

]]> mike http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163340 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163340 Drugs Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:14:56 -0800 Comment by BerkeleyMom Just make sure that six pack is Budweiser!

There are some great product placement opportunities here for cindy McCain's beer business, doncha know. You betcha, dog gonnit ;-)


]]> BerkeleyMom http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163341 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163341 Drugs Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:15:02 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Let's declare victory on the Drug War and then decriminalize it to show no hard feelings, while pardonning all but large dealers in prison.

Sounds like a plan!

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163364 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163364 Drugs Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:36:14 -0800 Comment by scary tyler moore dominic, how did you come up with a picture of john balto?

]]> scary tyler moore http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163365 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163365 Drugs Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:36:29 -0800 Comment by PC Here's a government program (the drug war) that's very inefficient and actually promotes the values it is ostensibly designed to combat (eg law and order) yet somehow Democrats, most of whom probably tooted a bit and smoked pot, can't summon the moral courage to fight for change, nor the wits to explain why the war on drugs is a costly mistake that promotes violence and ill health.
They're all jsut cowering behidn the towering Republican frames and messages, such as "war on drugs."


Um, from where do you think they got the wildly successful soundbite frame, "war on terror" ???

]]> PC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163368 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163368 Drugs Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:39:31 -0800 Comment by John Bailo Druggos will be too stoned to get their hands on any of the $700 Billion bailout monies.

Clear-eyed Palinites will cleverly stand in line for their share!

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163401 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163401 Drugs Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:11:55 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @7 - we're not talking about you drug-heads in the Socialist Republican Party, Comrade John Bailo.

Step away from the Palin meth!

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163409 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163409 Drugs Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:21:30 -0800 Comment by Darren G. Beats "Joe Pinstripe"

]]> Darren G. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163414 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163414 Drugs Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:26:28 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo I keep waiting for somebody in a position to make a difference to point out how much money the federal government could make with a slight change in tactics. Or is it strategy? Anyway, the point is they need the money.

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163449 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163449 Drugs Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:54:48 -0800 Comment by Simon But some of us do drink an entire six-pack especially during the debates ;)

]]> Simon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163452 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163452 Drugs Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:59:18 -0800 Comment by RainMan @11: You must have been playing a drinking game involving Sarah Palin's use of the word "Maverick"...

]]> RainMan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163509 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1163509 Drugs Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:07:48 -0800 Comment by RonK, Seattle The term does not suggest that, it never did, and you'd have to be sadly out of touch to even think so.

]]> RonK, Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1164255 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_on_drugs_81#c1164255 Drugs Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:10:48 -0800