Post by RS Davis on May 16, 2004 14:13:18 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Garry Reed Wrote:[/glow]
The only way to understand the Bureaubrain is to slice it in half and stare at it. So …
Way back in the last century (specifically, 1999) people were guffawing at Gore for claiming he'd invented the Internet. What Al actually averred was, "I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Close enough for Virginia Postrel to affix her then Reason Editor's finger on the emblematic mindset of the ruling class: If government doesn't do it, it doesn't exist. She described the statist state of mind in an editorial thusly: "It's as though an important technological development does not really exist until it has been ratified by lavish subsidies and an act of Congress – until it has come to the official attention of people like Sen. Albert Gore Jr."
Little has changed in a century (well, specifically, in five years). Office of National Drug Controlling Potentates deputy directorcrat Dr. Andrea Barthwell scampered off to Connecticut recently to stick her national nose into what should have been strictly state stuff – legalizing medical marijuana. Her testimony? According to NBC30.com: "The crude plant is not a medicine," she said, noting that other drugs have gone through rigorous FDA tests. "Marijuana has not passed those tests."
The only way to understand the Bureaubrain is to slice it in half and stare at it. So …
Way back in the last century (specifically, 1999) people were guffawing at Gore for claiming he'd invented the Internet. What Al actually averred was, "I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Close enough for Virginia Postrel to affix her then Reason Editor's finger on the emblematic mindset of the ruling class: If government doesn't do it, it doesn't exist. She described the statist state of mind in an editorial thusly: "It's as though an important technological development does not really exist until it has been ratified by lavish subsidies and an act of Congress – until it has come to the official attention of people like Sen. Albert Gore Jr."
Little has changed in a century (well, specifically, in five years). Office of National Drug Controlling Potentates deputy directorcrat Dr. Andrea Barthwell scampered off to Connecticut recently to stick her national nose into what should have been strictly state stuff – legalizing medical marijuana. Her testimony? According to NBC30.com: "The crude plant is not a medicine," she said, noting that other drugs have gone through rigorous FDA tests. "Marijuana has not passed those tests."
