https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:07:55 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/ivins-molly/78096/ https://wist.info/ivins-molly/78096/#respond Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:23:55 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=78096 The War on Drugs is the perfect substitute for the Cold War. We can continue to pursue policies that don’t work on the cheerful assumption that if we just do more of what doesn’t work, it will solve the problem.

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (1990-02), “The Czar is Hooked,” The Progressive
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Collected in Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? (1991). ]]> https://wist.info/ivins-molly/78096/feed/ 0 78096 https://wist.info/hicks-bill/29051/ https://wist.info/hicks-bill/29051/#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:13:13 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=29051 That’s what I hate about the war on drugs. All day long we see those commercials: “Here’s your brain, here’s your brain on drugs”, “Just Say No”, “Why do you think they call it dope?” … And then the next commercial is “This Bud’s for yooouuuu.” C’mon, everybody, let’s be hypocritical bastards. It’s okay to drink your drug. We meant those other drugs. Those untaxed drugs. Those are the ones that are bad for you.

Bill Hicks (1961-1994) American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, musician [William Melvin "Bill" Hicks]
Performance, Pittsburgh (20 Jun 1991)

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