“Indeed”-style link to Ken at Popehat
The First Rule of the War on Drugs is DON’T TALK ABOUT THE WAR ON DRUGS:
Sometimes people write me and ask why the hell I’m not writing about story X, because it’s “right up your alley.” Usually this means that story X is about free speech, or nanny statism, or police abuse, or (not infrequently) some species of mordantly self-involved douchebaggery that readers associate with me.
Sometimes the answer is that I’m too busy. Often the answer is that I can’t think of an angle on the story that will allow me to say something about it that hasn’t been said better already by smarter people, and I am not in the mood for a mere heh indeed-style link.
And sometimes the answer is that the story inspires a white-hot impotent fury that would leave me unable to write anything but a string of epithets.
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