In reporting Michael Jackson's body was "riddled with needle marks"(July 9), you help distinguish the four different classes of enhancement-users in our society: celebrities, athletes, national politicians, and of course Illinois politicians.
Show business celebrities are in and out of rehab because of drug abuse. It's almost a given that big-ticket performers fall back on big-drug habits to keep them going. Star athletes are being caught season after season sneaking locker-room juice to keep them playing. National politicians are being discovered time and time again getting high on sexual dalliances from local hookers to South American beauties.
But here in Illinois our guys (and mostly it is the guys!) are usually hooked on highs you can't get in a shot or locate in a bedroom. In Illinois our guys have been getting high on the most seductive drug of them all -- power! Check the history books and the stories jump out at you like a bad novel.
Inspectors, ward heelers, council member, mayors, state officials and of course governors. No dope for them -- not when there's power to be had. The power to cheat, bilk and corrupt with dazzling indifference to the rules they've been elected to uphold. Hey, in Illinois power is always the needle of choice....!
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Here's what I think. This "power" thing runs directly from Adam in Paradise to pols in Illinois. Straight unbroken line!!
ReplyDeleteAnd here's what I think. I think your theology sounds indisputably logical. However, why this one state with such a monopoly on the problem...? But then in a state where Clout is our middle name, I suppose it's predictable that Power would be the drug of choice.
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