April 2, 2009
Scattershot Department
Scattershot 2009-04-02
Things I'd tweet about if I cared more about Twitter:
- My dad has CSPAN on a lot, and I was listening to congresscritters discussing the latest drug scourge: DXM. It's a common incredient in medications, but apparently all the kids are abusing it, so these guys were sponsoring a bill to regulate bulk sales. In large dosages, it's a hallucinogenic---although one of the sponsors couldn't pronounce the word "hallucinogenic." Another one of them called it DMX. The real kicker, though, is that DXM is just dextromethorphan---cough medicine---on sale at corner drug stores world-wide since 1958. One of the sponsors couldn't pronounce "dextromethorphan." I have complete confidence that this couldn't possibly lead to unnecessary prosecutions.
- In a sad case about the neglectful death of a child, the plea bargain agreement includes a promise from the prosecution that the charges will be dismissed if the victim rises from the dead. Really.
- The Onion reports on the exoneration of a man falsely convicted of an inhumanly brutal murder.
- In countries that have royalty or some other ruling elite, the folks in power are never punished for their crimes the way regular folks are. Keeping that in mind, is it really possible that the only only case of prosecutorial misconduct Attorney General Eric Holder found at the Justice Department involved a U.S. Senator? Or is that just the only victim of prosecutorial misconduct whose friends Holder runs into at parties?
- I don't know if you should touch the queen, but at least no one bowed to her. Only her subjects bow, so an American who bows is lying. Also, Americans don't bow.
Update: Scott Greenfield weighs in on the prosecutorial misconduct issue.
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