So Eric Holder wants more "The Wire" huh? And he holds a sort of hearing about it? Really?

Basic story here: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/06/02/u-s-attorney-general-wants-hbo-series-%E2%80%98the-wire%E2%80%99-to-return/

He summoned one of the show's former actors who now runs a program to help kids in bad situations.

Holder, in the hearing, called for another season of The Wire. I guess we can never have enough gritty views of young inner city kids fucking up.

Hey Eric. I have an idea. How about focusing on *all* kids, including those kids in the affluent white suburbs where heroin addiction is at epidemic levels? How about ending the criminalization of this disease and refocusing on health care and rehabilitation? How about we stop WASTING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS on stupid fucking social "wars" and deal with the actual fucking problems?????

(Doubt me calling it epidemic? Google "heroin epidemic suburbs" and read the stories in the serious media.)

How about that?

On a related note, kudos to "Wire" creator David Simon:

But the immediate WH reaction was to slam down the UN report calling for drug legalization, by a Commission that included ex-presidents of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia (all conservatives), Kofi Annan, Papandreou (current PM of Greece!), Louise Arbour, Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes, Paul Volcker and George Fucking Schultz.

Why can't politicians ever live up to their own hype? Obama said - on tape - that his favorite character from The Wire was Omar!

These guys are unbelievably divorced from reality, to be able to say such things when chatting and then turn around and consistently Do the Wrong Thing. And by "these guys" I mean pretty much all of them, the whole politician and policy-making class.

Kudos to Smith and Simon for speaking clearly.

and we know what happened to Bunny - I guess that's the part Holder likes too.

or Holder identifies with the politicos who can't let something rational happen b/c politicians, at the end of the day, care more about their careers than the public good (and that goes for both sides of the aisle.)

the sad thing is that democrats seem to think the WOD is some way for them to look tough on crime...that the WOD helps to create.

Damn fine show.

So is Treme, with many of the same actors.

:thumbsup:

You know, the ones that hire death squads.

Maybe take Clarence Thomas in as a partner.