Pubdate: Wed, 13 Sep 2000
Date: 09/13/2000
Source: Herald, The (WA)
Author: Bruce Quentin Hill

"Sex, drugs, rock-n-roll," I shouted, "and religion!" A geezer
flashing back to Woodstock, or a comment on pop political culture?
Voyeuristic media coverage of the sexual proclivities of "Willy" is a
result of the vast right-wing conspiracy to discredit our greatest
president. Or is the Christian lawyer who "did not inhale," proof of
the tragic consequences of secondhand smoke?

Of course Al "Forest Gump" Gore, also admitting to familiarity with
Christianity and psychotropic substance, invested "sex ... religion,"
and when elected, will reinvent them for us.

The other party's political pandered, George W. "smarter than
sagebrush" Bush, smirkingly stammering on any issue, is substantiation
that Yale graduation criteria are capricious. Or is a vast left-wing
media out to get the ex-drinker?

Catering to those recognizing drug policy hypocrisy, the fringe
political agnostics, Ralph Nader and Harry Browne, threaten to solve
the problem: legalize narcotics, release drug "war criminals" and open
a national chain of drive-thru rehab centers. Hmmm!?

If it's rock or rap, moralists condemn the musical tastes of youth.
Tipper led a religious crusade against the entertainment industry's
disgusting lyrics, including those that played backwards slowly 1,000
times cause devil worship. If she and the other media censorship
advocate, Joe Leiberman win the vote, hopefully they will maintain
therapeutic levels of Prozac to restrain their zeal.

"Sex ... religion," vote your bias. At the least it could neutralize
mine.

Bruce Quentin Hill,
Monroe