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Like every other trend in pop music, the new pot proselytizing has inspired its own paraphernalia. Some aficionados hollow out Phillies Blunt cigars and fill them with dope. (For those unsure of the technique, rapper Redman's new song How to Roll a Blunt provides instructions.) PHILLIES BLUNT T shirts have gone mainstream, sometimes topped off with the marijuana-leaf baseball caps that have replaced X caps as the hot hat on the street...
...Square, the third adventure of Arkady Renko, the Russian detective of Gorky Park and Polar Star, touches the imagination in a powerful, brooding way that seems very Russian. Give or take Richard Price's Clockers, a story of New Jersey cops and dope sellers that has some of the same strengths, it may be the best thriller to appear in several years. But Edmund Wilson's contemptuous dismissal of detective stories still lashes: Is it feebleminded to care who killed Roger Ackroyd...
...most pleasant surprise on Floored Genius is "Out of My Mind on Dope and Speed," an underproduced gem from the nearly unfindable Skellington (1990) that sounds something like the Velvet Underground with the Opportunes singing backup. It's almost enough to give you hope for a Julian Cope comeback--too bad the last three songs here are drawn from 1991's truly execrable Peggy Suicide...
Rush is C-SPAN, Comedy Central and the Nostalgia network all in one: 100% politics and 100% show biz. And in that he's like nearly everyone else in public life. The "issues" in the Republican campaign are largely Hard Copy topics like adultery, dope smoking, draft dodging and politically correct itineraries for student vacations. On The McLaughlin Group, the Studs of weekend round-table shows, pundits pretend to be pit bulls. On the late-night talk shows opposite Limbaugh's, comedians pause in their mocking of Bush and Quayle to get serious for just a moment, folks...
...course, like alcohol, drugs need to be regulated--to ensure purity (fewer ODs from bad dope), to prohibit driving under the influence and to allow employers to fire and suspend those who come to work high. Education about drugs needs to be as pervasive as it is about smoking, sex and drinking. Also consider the fact that a sales tax on drugs could make millions for the government just as we would save the millions that now go toward waging a useless drug...