In a message dated 10/29/99 2:00:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << (like Kevorkian's lawyer, the guy that ran in Michigan AND LOST >> Jeffrey Figer is the guy's name, though I may be misspelling that. He's the brother of the lead singer of the Knack (My Sharona!). I liked to think he was a good guy, too, the way he defended kevorkian and whatnot. but he's more interested in the publicity (take note of the fact that he's spearheading the lawsuits from the parents of columbine students - as if the school should be held liable. or the kids' parents. or any of the other organizations he's suing. . . all within about two weeks from the actual massacre.) <<Now, Jesse Ventura may be a little weird, but he's pro-marijuana and anti-organized-religion (check out his Playboy interview), so there may at least be a tiny bit of hope for the Reform Party.>> Why is pro-marijuana and anti-organized religion the things that make you think he's a good representative. If this is how you would sum up his possible campaign in the case that he would ever run, it's hopeless. Must people aren't "pro-marijuana", "anti-organized religion" and "a little weird". Now, (and after much skepticism - i thought it funny when he was elected governor) I happen to think that in the rare event, Jesse Ventura could possibly make a good president, because he has some good ideas about the governments' place in the public's personal lives - i.e., they should remain separate, for the most part. He actually does seem to be a fairly intelligent guy who just hasn't mastered the censor button that seems to be so necessary for a politician to continue within the peoples' favor. this is unfortunate, but true. i don't do drugs, at all. but i don't think that our jails should be filling up with drug users and dealers, and i think mandatory minimum laws are absolutely ridiculous. but it seriously bugs me when people glom onto things that are pro-pot simply because they are such. as much as people like to think of radical change happening through sloganeering, im sorry to say, but subversion is the way to go in the u.s. likewise (and unrelated, other than the fact that jesse ventura seems to think this too), i don't see prostitutes, but i think the illegality of prostitution is also ridiculous, and a product of a twisted and hypocritical moral system. sex = bad, let those who choose to deal in it fend themselves from disease and crime. prostitution will happen; the government could do well by protecting those that choose to sell themselves, much like in nevada. <<He went a bit far in saying that religion is a crutch for the "weak"; in my book, we ALL have our crutches. Mine are love, music, drugs, and god/goddess/gods/goddesses, in that order.>> in agreement. star
