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dead-on and funny, while being as subtle as a shovel upside the head. Keep up the good work! - Bill T. P.J. O’Rourke comment: Thanks for the kind words, Bill. But it’s going to take more than a shovel to deal with Kamala’s cement head. (Speaking of heads, P.S. to those who don’t share Bill’s and my gear-head enthusiasms – The Buick Grand National was 1980s muscle car physical therapy for that staid old “doctor’s car” brand, named in honor of Darrell Waltrip’s back-to-back 1981 & ’82 NASCAR championships in Buick Regals.) Glad to be a new subscriber, I’ve always enjoyed your work Mr. O’Rourke. The concern to me of legalizing marijuana is that it will follow the tobacco model. Tobacco is cultivated to be more addictive and therefore more lethal, marketed to young folks, and has proven to be a great source of revenue for tobacco industries, “quitting tobacco” industries, governments, and health care – all at the expense of the people it kills and those who pay for health care. - Jon G. P.J. O’Rourke comment: I’m afraid you’re all too right, Jon. But I’m also afraid we’re stuck with decriminalized pot. No country has ever had much luck with “making stupid illegal.” Re: Our ’Cannabis Means Business’ Issue My wife is terrified of my driving, and has compared it to being in a getaway
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Been reading your words since an old English teacher from DeVilbiss High School turned me on to your writings over a Rusty Nail at my bar. Looking forward to reading more. – Pat H. (a “big fan from Toledo”) P.J. O’Rourke comment: Pat, as your fine education in literature attests, you and I went to the best damn high school in T-Town. (Now sadly closed due to Toledo’s economic and political woes.) All the other schools called us the “Cake-Eaters.” I’m proud to be a member of the Class of ’65. And proud to be a Toledoan. Been a big fan of your writing for many years, from your review of the Buick GN where you told the third-worlder’s to ’get their damn ox-carts out the way’ to Modern Manners and how to recreate the Battle of the Falklands, using beef bourguignon as capital ships and asparagus spears as Exocet missiles, all the way to that declarative explanation of our government: Parliament ofWhores. Nowmore appropriate than ever. See also: Kamala Harris. Looking forward to reading American Consequences . Your insight has always been We’re strong for Toledo T – O – L – E – D – O Where the girls are the fairest The boys are the squarest Of any old town that I know
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