Dowbrigade

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush, in a push to take charge of the
election-year agenda, is expected to say Tuesday that "America is
addicted to oil" and must break its dependence on foreign suppliers
in unstable parts of the world.

see AP (today)

The United States is just as addicted to oil as the beatest junkie on
the lower east side hustling for dime bags.

We absolutely need our oil. Even a temporary reduction of 5 or 10% would
upset our lives like nothing we have experienced since WWII – maybe more,
as we are much more addicted now than we were then. Going cold turkey would
be unthinkable. Life as we know it in the United States would cease to
exist. Millions would starve.

see Dowbrigade (six
months ago)

Has Bush been reading the Dowbrigade? Note that the Prez didn’t say
anything about kicking the habit, just giving up foreign dope for domestic
dope.

Professional
dominatrix Barbara Asher was acquitted yesterday of involuntary manslaughter
in the death of a New Hampshire man who prosecutors said suffered a fatal
heart attack while strapped to a bondage rack in her Quincy condominium.

Prosecutors had argued that Asher, 56, did nothing to help Michael Lord,
53, of North Hampton as he died during the July 2000 session, out of fear
that calling authorities would have jeopardized her dominatrix business.
The prosecutors said she and a boyfriend chopped up Lord’s 275-pound body
and dumped the parts in a trash bin behind a Chinese restaurant in Augusta,
Maine.

Lord’s corpse was never found, which produced a rare legal situation:
Prosecutors were forced to try Asher for manslaughter without irrefutable
proof that a man had died, his body.

from the Boston
Globe

Many are the lessons to be learned from this hoary yarn. Even a 275-pound
guy named "Lord" can need a little discipline from time to time.
We need some kind of licensing board to give physicals to consenting adults
before they are allowed to participate in S & M activities. Professionals
in the sex trade should keep plenty on heavy-duty trash bags on hand at
all times. It helps to have the number of a good "Cleaner" (think
Harvey Keitel
.as Winston ‘The Wolf’ in Pulp Fiction) in your little black book. It
also helps to have the numbers of certain high ranking politicians in
your little black book (which never came to light). Finally, don’t eat
at Chinese Restaurants in Augusta, Maine, or anywhere else, for that matter.