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The Best I Can Hope For Is That I Might Provoke A Water Cooler Argument Between You And Somebody Else. But It Is Not Journalism. It Doesn't Have The Rigor Of Journalism. It Doesn't Have The Proof Positive That Facts Provide. So It Can Be Readily Dismissed As Mere Propaganda. But I Can Certainly Reach More People.

Barack Obama's Understanding Of What The Drug War Had Cost The Country Was Meaningful. And Very Quietly In His Second Term, He And Eric Holder Did Make Some Adjustments In Terms Of The Use Of The Department Of Justice, On The Federal Level. You Saw Ratcheting Back Of Drug Prohibition, And Mass Incarceration. You Also Saw, On The Part Of Some Certain States, A Realization That They Followed The War On Drugs To A Useless Place, That They Were Only Doing Damage To Communities, And Bankrupting Budgets With Prison Construction.

There Are A Couple Of Ideas For Features That I Would Love To Do. They Happen To Be Comedies.

There Were A Lot Of Video Store Owners And Managers Out Of Work, Once Pornography Became More About Streaming And Downloads. But The Other Thing Is That There Are A Lot Of People Who Make Money By Finding A Place To Stand And Add Almost Nothing. It's Particularly Ironic If Your Job Title Is Pimp. On Some Level, In A Healthier World Where Sex Work Could Be Rationalized And The Risk Reduced, Your Whole Job Title Would Be Extraneous Anyway. It's Not Exactly A Point Of Great Grievance If You're A Pimp That Suddenly Your Prostitutes Don't Require The Same Level Of Reliance.

Homicide Is The Major Leagues, The Center Ring, The Show. It Always Has Been ... It Goes Beyond Academic Degrees, Specialized Training Or Book Learning, Because All The Theory In The World Means Nothing If You Can't Read The Street.