This is just a link blog

Posted Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 6:23 pm

I would like to make it perfectly clear that all I do here is just link to stories appearing elsewhere.

In other news, I didn't know that the author of the George W. Bush biography 'Fortunate Son' committed suicide. Or, "suicide" to delusional, pot-besotted far-left liberals.

This 2001 article (alternet.org/drugreporter/11881) - which originally appeared in High Times magazine - has the details. Not only do I not believe anything in that article, I encourage everyone else to treat it with extreme derision. See also pre-accident coverage from Salon and this McLaughlin transcript that makes the completely correct point that all the charges in that book were completely baseless.

Comments

mr civil rights (not verified)

Mon, 06/13/2005 - 14:43

What kind of silly self-indulgence is this? Margaux had a bad time in high school and hates her family; therefore she wants destruction visited upon the demons of her youth. What does this have to do with the social policy of a nation?

margaux (not verified)

Mon, 06/13/2005 - 09:13

I live in Colorado where we have lots and lots of Mexican immigrants. I am glad they are here. Oh, and I got raised in an almost all white Framingham Mass. - I am glad that they have gotten more immigrants and hope it continues.

margaux

eh (not verified)

Mon, 06/13/2005 - 00:41

Why the proclamation? Was there some doubt about it? Anyway, while your entries typically do link to stories published elsewhere, I think it's a little ridiculous for you to suggest yours is "only a link blog" -- the whole way you present the links, including of course your own commentary, shows you have an editorial slant about all of it, so why not just cop to it?

Regarding Bush and the cocaine story, in the McLaughlin link the only "proof" (quotes again) that the charges are "completely baseless" is denials by both Bushes, and also a rather more convincing one by someone who was DA at the time. Isn't that correct? But I think you have to be a little naive to believe it is absolutely impossible for something like that to be hushed up. Personally, the story didn't seem credible to me at the time, and in any case wasn't important, as it wouldn't have affected my opinion of Bush (who, BTW, I would find it hard to believe never used cocaine). But I do agree with Bush Sr's statement that stuff like that keeps a lot of people out of politics, except I would take it further and add this is one reason we have to settle for people like W.