2023-06-07 Bookworm Video Podcast
It’s another thrilling ride through the flotsam and jetsam of my mind as I examine the social and political scenes in America today.
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Tag: Marijuana
Bookworm Beat 12/20/18 — the border wall edition
I went overboard in this Bookworm Beat, covering the border wall, Syria, Antisemitism, Europe’s fall, science, Michelle and Melania, media bias, and much more. Good walls make good neighbors. Trump did it — he got the House to include $5 billion in the budget bill to build the border wall.
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It’s funny because it’s true: You know you’re from California if….
This “joke” email about California is so accurate that it manages, in fewer than 300 words, to skewer everything crazy about what was once a golden state. I did not write the following clever list. Instead, I got it in an email. I share it with you not just because
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Is this the reason the Left is so dopey about climate change?
I recently spoke with a couple of political disinterested legal pot growers. What surprised me was their utter disdain for the whole “CO2 causes anthropogenic climate change” theory. They’d reached that point by dint of their experience as growers. It turns out that indoor pot growing is harder than it
Continue readingDoes Obama’s interview about Israel reveal a president who has finally broken free of reality?
Mano a mano, I’d bet on Netanyahu against Obama every time. Nation to nation, though, Bibi has the misfortune to be facing off against a spoiled, Leftist, anti-Israel, pot-smoking adolescent who nevertheless controls the world’s greatest military and economic power. I’m still betting on the Israelis, but it’s not a
Continue readingAsk Bookworm — the legalized pot edition
A friend emailed me this question: “Explain to me the hypocrisy of a nation that denigrates tobacco use while simultaneously legalizing marijuana?” Silly friend! It’s very simple really. If you know the facts, you’ll know that there’s no hypocrisy. Marijuana is totally different from cigarettes. Here goes . . .
Continue readingWashington’s stoners celebrate the triumph of dishonest debate and public misinformation
A lot of people who showed up at the polls this past November actually had very parochial concerns. They weren’t worried about the economy, or national security, or illegal immigration. Blacks were concerned with racial solidarity, unions were concerned about union strength (and to hell with the economy on which
Continue readingDid Obama have a “coke nail” at Occidental?
Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama has admitted that he did drugs when he was young: In the book [Dreams from My Father], Obama acknowledges that he used cocaine as a high school student but rejected heroin. “Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.
Continue readingPreviously undiscovered video of Obama’s high school years
(I’m sure someone already made this little visual joke back in May, when Maraniss’ book first came out but having just watched Fast Times at Ridgemont High for the first time in decades, I couldn’t resist.) Another Obama idea was roof hits. “When they were chooming in a car, all
Continue readingBetter parenting through pot. Really?
The sentiments in the article claiming pot is a parenting panacea aren’t that surprising. Pot users have always touted marijuana’s benefits in the alternative press. What’s a little surprising about this article, which claims that one man became an infinitely better parent because of his pot use, is that the
Continue readingPresidential pot trajectory
1988: A serial liar, bomber, drug dealer, and criminal claims, without any corroborating evidence, that he sold pot to Vice Presidential candidate Dan Quayle. Despite these allegations (which were almost certainly false), the Bush-Quayle ticket wins. 1992: Governor William Jefferson Clinton contends that, while he put a joint to his
Continue readingCalifornians: Vote a straight Republican ticket
My friend Sally Zelikovsky says it in the clearest words possible: Unless conservatives in California vote for the Republicans, we will have a Sacramento government made up entirely of San Francisco Democrats. If that horrible outcome sounds painfully obvious to you, you don’t know California. There are two dynamics in
Continue readingThe problem with the Left is that they’ve been inhaling
I’m too much of a self-control freak ever to have been attracted to recreational drugs (or even alcohol, for that matter). Add to that the fact that my first childhood memories involve the Haight-Ashbury after the Summer of Love fell apart, when the neighborhood had turned into one giant, drug-ridden
Continue readingCause, meet Effect (Volume, I dunno, a million?)
There’s something charmingly naive about the way in which the Leftiers amongst us are constantly surprised by the way in which Effect resolutely follows on Cause. This time, the unexpected (for them) surprise is that, if you legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes, more people will grow more of it: There
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