Now, I don't know if this is real or not, but it is quite amusing. The video clip shows a British journalist attempting to file his report from the scene of a massive drug burn. He has some problems. This has been floating around for awhile, but I think it's worth posting here. Enjoy.

On Thursday, I crossed back into the US from British Columbia and spent the day listening to all the back and forth over Chavez's "devil" comments as I drove across Washington, Idaho, and Montana. About 4am, I checked into a motel in Broadus, Montana—which is about 150 miles from nowhere in any direction—flipped on the tube, and lo and behold, there was Afghanistan scholar Barnett Rubin giving the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a tutorial on the complications of US Afghan policy.

I caught an awkward exchange on Meet the Press this Morning between Tim Russert and Afghan President Hamid Karzai:

Tim Russert: Is Afghanistan becoming a narco-state?

Here in the uk our war on some drugs is not as harsh as in america. There is however a shared common problem in that much of the time it is people with zero real knowledge of drugs [common sense to m

How often does misogyny and the drug war intersect in such a disgusting and frightening way? It has come to my attention that some misguided judges out there think that jailing pregnant women with addiction problems is the best way to protect the health of their fetuses.

From the Journal Inquirer in Connecticut:

A recent article about the smuggling of drugs into the US piece ends with the caveat, “there's no end to it” but that’s horse-poopie. The means are there if the government has the will to act.