Thoughts Out Of Season

Former Washington DC Mayor Marion “Crack is Whack” Barry collapsed and died out side his home today at the surprising age of 78. You remember Mr. Barry, don’t you? He was the guy caught tooting on the crack pipe on police video in 1979 and spent 6 months in prison. Undaunted by conscience or sense of shame he again ran for office and landed a job on the City council back in 2005 to the joy of the City’s then large population of crack addicts. Barry was remembered by his longtime friend Jack “The Smoker” Johnson as a man who loved his city, its people and some white little rocks that you can buy off many of the City’s street corners. “The worst part of it all”, explained Mr. Johnson was that Barry was just starting to turn his life around. “He was just starting to turn his life around. He went down to the local high school just the other day to pick up the application for the GED. He wanted to go back to school to be a chemist”. Drugs weren’t Barry’s only addicti...

New York City is up in arms over a pair of trespassing incidents on the Brooklyn Bridge over the past few weeks. Now the City and police department are going berserk trying to stop future similar incidents. The Mayor and police commissioner assault the airwaves with nonstop talk about the possibility of terrorists doing the same " with catastrophic consequences". But they have not given an example what the terrorists might get the chance to do if they did get access to the top of the bridge. Blow it up? How, carrying 5000 pounds of explosives on their backs? I don't think so. Use it as a platform to initiate sniper attacks on people? There's a trillion higher, much more easily accessible spots in the city. Throw buckets of urine down on passerby? Disgusting but not really dangerous? Flip the bird to passing police helicopters? Disrespectful but again not so dangerous as to be catastrophic. What exactly is the "catastrophic" threat here? What is the real t...

The mayor of Toronto Canada gave a press conference to deny he was a crack addict. Cell phone videos purport to show the mayor smoking from a glass pipe. The mayor categorically every having used crack and stated he is definitely not a crack addict. I tend to believe him. As for me I tend to believe him although there is some suspicion when it comes to milk shakes, hot dogs and ice-cream sundaes.