The Huff Post really pushed me over the edge today, I guess that’s their plan. So now its my turn to see if I can pass the angst on. Here is a game on drugs that’s fun to play. Connect the dots!!!

Dot #1 This afternoon’s Huff Post tells of another Mexican public office getting killed in what looks like a drug hit.

“Edelmiro Cavazos, Mexican Mayor, Found Dead After Kidnapping” MARK WALSH | 08/18/10 07:09 PM | AP
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/18/edelmiro-cavazos-mexican-_n_686608.html
“…the assassination bore the hallmarks of drug cartels ….”

Dot #2 Yesterday, Huff Post had it about some loser that was on track to get 3 hots and a cot for 25 years on the tax payer’s dime for stealing food.

“Gregory Taylor, Homeless Man Sentenced To 25 Years For Stealing Food, Ordered Released From Prison” RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | 08/17/10 04:46 AM | AP
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/17/gregory-taylor-homeless-m_n_684828.html
“…After 13 years behind bars for trying to break in to a church kitchen to find something to eat…..”

In all fairness it was his “third strike”, he had once snatched a purse with $10 in it, and also tried to rob a guy back in the 1980’s, no weapon or injuries. He is just a stupid crack head loser. I don’t want to spend my tax dollars to support him in jail. 25 years, at $20,000 a year of my tax dollars? No Way! That’s half a million dollars! Just give the clown a prescription for whatever his doctor thinks will work out and let him stock the shelves at a big box store for the rest of his life. Otherwise the money he is stealing is going to the guys in Mexico that killed that mayor…..

And of course, where did Huff Post hide Dot Number 3? That was last week, Referring to comments made by the previous President of Mexico, Vincente Fox, on his personal blog.
http://blogvicentefox.blogspot.com/2010/08/drogadiccion-crimen-organizado-y.html )

“Ex-Mexico president calls for legalizing drugs”, E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | August 8, 2010 10:23 PM EST | AP
“Legalizing in this sense does not mean drugs are good and don’t harm those who consume them,” he wrote. “Rather we should look at it as a strategy to strike at and break the economic structure that allows gangs to generate huge profits in their trade, which feeds corruption and increases their areas of power.”

Did you connect the dots yet? If not, check out some of the ideas on “harm reduction” that are going around. Its nothing radical, just trying to reduce the harm that drugs are doing to our society and the individual.

This is not a fight to win, rather its a problem to solve. Playing connect the dots on drugs is fun, try it. And to the gang at Huff Post, thanks for getting this stuff out on page one.

theicefish
(a longer version of this is at http://icefishroad.com/ )