In the news today an "alleged" drunk driver ran a red light and killed a young pitcher in the prime of his life. After the sadness and some outrage nothing will change. This kind of thing happens every day and it's tolerated.
Yet the same people responsible for creating and enforcing laws in this country are dead-set against marijuana, even for medicinal use.
That's crazy hypocrisy.
Now I just watched William Cohan on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart explaining in very simple terms the insanely flimsy and 'hard to believe it's legal' foundation for Bear Stearns business model and the reason for it's collapse.
This is the first time I've heard about how this crazy system works. On all of the news programs, all of the political blogs, through all the political campaigns over the past twenty years I have never had an inkling of the insane system that the investment banking and hedge funds operate under.
That's crazy enough, but the thought of hundreds of Billions of taxpayer dollars being given to this same system (and many of the same people) to prop it up is the height of insanity and irresponsibility!
I think that if the people of this nation/world truly realized how they were being used to prop up this house of cards they would revolt.. and why don't they know?
Isn't that the job of journalism?
And why are our elected representatives part of the problem?
