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MISERY?

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Forbes Magazine (motto: "We used to report on money when anyone had some") has ranked Miami, our fair city, the 9th most miserable city to live in, in the US.  And to add insult to injury, we are snugly nestled in between Buffalo, NY, and  St. Louis, MO. Oh the ignominy of it all. THE WAR ON DRUGS. The Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy has reported that, steady yourselves, the US war on drugs in Latin America has been a failure.  They have also hastened to point out that the sky in fact is blue.  As our friends from Minnesota would say, "Tell us something we don't know, why doncha? The report is detailed here in the WSJ. Someday historians are going to look back on the war on drugs over the last twenty to thirty years and total up the lost lives, the money spent, the lives wasted in warehouse incarceration, and their going to shake their heads in sad wonderment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on February 12, 2009 (boomark / email).