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 She Don't Lie, She Don't Lie, She Don't Lie
* Cocaine in the 60's and 70's: In the "Saturday Night Live" era, cocaine was billed as the perfect drug. It was described as having the desired effect while being, at worst, only psychologically addictive. In fact, if you disagreed with those who endorsed the recreational use of cocaine, you were soooo square. We know more now than we knew 25 years ago. A lot more.
* There is a phrase in rocketry, "Max-Q" which is the point in a launch when the maximum dynamic forces are acting on the vehicle - about the time the rocket is passing through the sound barrier. For young people Max-Q is between the ages of 13 and 18 years. We have one son, Reed. A great kid. Now 23. During the period of Max-Q in his life, we discussed the dangers of drug use.
* Correctly or not, Reed thought I was a pretty cool dad. I never discussed whether or not I took drugs because I did not want him to equate "coolness" in my 40's with using drugs in my 20's.
* George W is a pretty cool Governor. He's a great role model. His daughters are in that Max-Q range as are tens of millions of other parents' kids. The news media has to balance its desire to get a story against doing real harm to all those children who are at Max-Q.
* Speaking of youthful drug use, the New York Times, on Friday, issued a lengthy correction of a story about corruption in Bosnia, quoting statistics from the "Office of the High Representative" which was an accurate description of my fraternity's delegate to the inter-fraternity council.
* Steve Forbes has been claiming that "this is a two-man race" and it turns out he's right. According to the Gallup/USA Today/CNN poll released late last week there is a tight race for third place in the GOP between Forbes and Dan Quayle. Forbes is TRAILING Quayle 4 percent to 6 percent.
* According to that Gallup poll, 13 percent of Democrats would "definitely" or "probably" vote for Warren Beatty. Doesn't this suggest that the hard left base of the Democratic party is searching for someone to fill a vacuum? Why isn't anyone writing about this?
* Bill Bradley's biography on his official web page says, "His parents were nominal Republicans…" What is a "nominal" Republican? Merriam-Websters' internet dictionary defines the word as: "(3) existing or being something in name or form only."
* Is it fair to ask if his parents were "nominal" Republicans so they could be "nominal" members of the local country club and whether that country club was "nominally" restricted as to Blacks and Jews? Of course there's absolutely no reason to ask a question like this which, apparently, makes no difference.
* Here's an interesting factoid. The biography of Bill Bradley's wife (noted scholar of contemporary literature, Dr. Ernestine Schlant) indicates she earned her Ph.D. at Emory University. Quick, what other person-in-the-news earned a degree at Emory? Check out the Secret Decoder Ring at www.mullings.com for the thrilling answer.
* The head of the Swiss secret service has been suspended pending an investigation that he was setting up a secret army. What do you suppose he was protecting against, Liechtenstein launching a surprise attack?
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