Intolerance of Zero Tolerance

The Economist has taken a real turn to the left in the last 20 years. But it's always had the advantage of being analytical, rather than just reactionary (or Chicagoist), in its opinions.

I don't have an MLK post, but I do have this beautiful MLK picture. I'm envious of any mustache, even a pencil one.

This pro-harm reduction article has one of the most obnoxiously funny final paragraphs, castigating the American Right, who are usually so adamantly opposed to harm-reduction over non-working "zero tolerance" positions:

Drug abuse is driven to a significant extent by fashion. If there's one thing government has going for it, it's the ability to make anything unfashionable. This insight into government's jujitsu-like capability to render the cool uncool should be more obvious to conservatives than to liberals. And yet, in America, the very people who are most distrustful of government's ability to do anything right are the ones who are steadfastly opposed to letting the government use its secret power of deadly uncoolness to fight drug abuse. It seems like a huge wasted opportunity.