PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS

PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A JOKE

No, I’m not going to tell you what this is about. You’d never believe me.

Four questions:

1. Does the Onion have a valid claim for copyright infringment in situations like this? Their business is clearly damaged if people are going to do this sort of stuff in real life.

2. Is there a Nobel Prize for oily self-righteousness?

3. When did the phrase “moving and powerful” acquire a secondary meaning of “disgustingly whiny”?

4. How long is it going to take someone to say, “Winners never quit, and quitters never win”?

Author: Mark Kleiman

Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out. Books: Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken) When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993) Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989) UCLA Homepage Curriculum Vitae Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com