I didn’t watch the President’s press conference last night. I probably would have had I thought of it, but I didn’t. I may have inadvertently recorded it though, so maybe I’ll get to see it yet (and, really, there isn’t much you can’t find on the Internet these days anyway). But I did catch a lot of feigned outrage from Republicans like l’il Lindsey Graham (who came out of his closet and saw his shadow, meaning six more weeks of whining). Funny they don’t mind throwing buckets of money at banks, but the thought of spending money on putting people to work makes them apoplectic. Neither stimulus bill does enough, IMHO, but the Senate version sucks more than the House one.

I seriously don’t care if A-Rod took a “banned substance” that he doesn’t really remember what it was but he’s really, really sorry about. Although, I did just watch a CSI episode where some ultimate fighter dude had ‘roid rage and ripped some guy’s arm off, and then ripped his own biceps muscle out using a piece of broken mirror. Pretty icky. So, Rodriguez probably shouldn’t do that.

Speaking of drugs I don’t care if athletes do, I saw something about why dope was made illegal. Turns out, in the twenties, they wanted cheap labor in the South and Southwest, and – as we all know – cheap labor = Mexicans. So, there were lots of Mexicans coming in to do our crap work. Being poor, they weren’t exactly out there drinking top-shelf booze, and instead were smoking that silly little weed that grew pretty much everywhere.

Then came the Depression, and those dirty Mexicans were taking “our” jobs, so there was an effort to vilify them (some things really don’t ever change, do they?) by making dope illegal and painting it as a horrible narcotic (which it isn’t) that made everybody instantly insane and/or criminal when they smoked it. The big push to make it illegal came from powerful politicians from the South and Southwest.

So, now we have this ridiculous, hugely expensive, and never-ending “war on drugs” (hey, Republicans, want an idea on how to cut spending?) that makes regular people criminals, and makes murderous criminals rich. All over a plant that God put on this planet that grows everywhere outside the polar ice caps.

I guess they think they know more than God. Blasphemous and shameful, indeed.