Friday, November 21, 2008

Out With the Old, In With More of the Same

More evidence that the Obama team will tilt toward prohibitionism. The subject here is drugs, not porn, but the emerging policy posture on social issues seems pretty obvious:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/obama-drug-czar-pick-no-r_b_145461.html

Let's see, we've got this guy as the drug czar (I thought the Russians fought a revolution to get rid of czars, but what do I know?)

We've got Eric Holder as A.G. with his grand plan for driving porn off the Internet.

What's next? Bob jensen as porn czar?

And just because Obama voted against down-zoning porn shops back when he was a state legislator doesn't neutralize the toxicity of the appointments he's making now.

When it comes to social issues, talk of change seems so far to mean changing the faces but keeping the same bad ideas.