Re: Old Topic...Re-Discovered - The Punchline

[G M <herecomestheflood@yahoo.com>]

With the new "Enough is Enough" billboards starting to pop up in
Moscow and recent front page headlines in the Daily News I consider
this to certainly be a topic of local concern and appropriate for
discussion on V. 2020.

I believe the two posts below, responses to what I considered a
serious post on my part, frame this issue in perhaps the most
appropriate, albeit tragic, manner.

Ms. Hovey and Mr. Cooper are able to, as much of society is, find
humor when it comes to beer/alcohol use/abuse.  Yet any mention of the
use/abuse of illicit substances results in reaction ranging from
horror to calls for increased law enforcement, more prisons and less
privacy, despite statistical data that overwhelmingly indicate legal
substances pose the biggest threat.

Is it any wonder that young people coming of age in this strange and
absurd environment are binge drinking more and dying more often as a
result of that binging?

I've never been accused of lacking a sense of humor.  But when I think
about the carnage resulting from both the "War on Illegal Drugs" and
the absence of truth and information when addressing our national
addiction to legal drugs such as alcohol...I just don't get the
punchline. 

Greg Meyer

---Sue Hovey <suehovey@moscow.com> wrote:
>
> Only if its a budhound or anschnauzer bush.
> 
> Sue
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Cooper <PhilCooper@webtv.net>
> To: G M <herecomestheflood@yahoo.com>
> Cc: vision2020@moscow.com <vision2020@moscow.com>
> Date: Thursday, January 21, 1999 5:02 AM
> Subject: Re: Old Topic...Re-Discovered
> 
> 
> Not quite sure........hey, I've got my dog trained to open the frig
and
> bring me a beer.  Does that qualify as a start?
> 
> PC
> 
> 
> 
> 

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