Rolling Stone Mag

Stoned for the first time

“ The tip-off was they slit their throats, after they were dead.  In Mexico they decapitate. --  How the Cartels Work ”

Click for large  I spent a goodly time at the dentist Tuesday, and chose from the waiting room liberry a copy of Rolling Stone (Sept 17, 2009).  Had I ever  read a whole issue before?  Don't think so.  First thing were reader letters.  Here's all you need to catch the general drift of the mag's political slant, in case you thought a rag celebrating drugs and Hollywood might be conservative. Is that great, or what?  Miss Suzanne Phipps finds a judging panel comprised of Gergen, Krugman, and Moore-the-Oaf  quite satisfactory, but where was the diversity?  Wonderful self-parody, that.  Since mags like this, I'm guessing, constitute a great % of this segment of the entertainment world's reading material, there should be no surprise that the industry is mindlessly leftist. I was not. Particularly delicious is the Threat Assessment (shown above),  where the three best things to occur for we the people were Justice Sotomeyer, Obama bowling a 141, and Mexico legalizing pot.   Conversely, the three greatest threats to the Republic are Rep. Michelle Bachman threatening to run for President, "Sleaze ball" Tom DeLay "Dancing with Stars," And Exxon getting some Green award.   What a world they live in.  An article by Guy Lawson, "How the Cartels Work,"  was so engaging that I was  compelled to smuggle the copy out in order to finish it.  Oh stop.  I'll return it my next visit - Jan 19.    You can read the article here, but I found that this video captured about 90% of the written content, so I recommend that.   A real mess, that, and we have nowhere near the political will to do anything about it.