Trust me. This is sticking. Now the Los Angeles Times has done a thorough story. My favorite quotes from it? Robert Woodsen, black activist: “[Jackson] uses the black community to threaten corporations, but then who benefits? It’s not the black community. It’s a handful of black businessmen around Jesse Jackson. And what it’s really doing is diluting the rich legacy of the civil rights movement. That legacy is now for sale.” T.J. Rodgers, president and CEO of Cypress Semiconductors: “It’s a shakedown. The basic shakedown mechanism is, he declares racism based on dubious statistics. Then he gives you a chance to repent – and the basic way is to give Jesse money. The threat is you’ll be labeled a racist if you don’t. That scares business leaders.” Maybe now it’s Jackson who’s a little scared.
DUDE, WHERE’S MY DRUG POLICY?: Fascinating story in today’s New York Times on new research into the possible medical uses of LSD, peyote, and even Ketamine, the party drug known as “Special K.” Some anecdotal evidence suggests that moderate use of these drugs might be helpful in curing addictions, personality disorders, depression, and schizophrenia. More evidence of the collapsing barrier we have put between so-called ‘recreational’ drugs and ‘medicinal’ pharmaceuticals – see my TRB posted in the Politics Section of the Greatest Hits. Too bad Joseph Califano hasn’t noticed.
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