Let Barack smoke!
Wednesday April 30, 2008
Categories: Democrats
An open letter to Michelle Obama, after a killer week for her husband's campaign. UPDATE: David Sedaris, on the semiotics of cigarette brands when he was younger: It was in a little store a block from our hotel that I...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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"The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide."
Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968
Obama should crash Willie Nelson's birthday party, solving several problems at once.
I haven't smoked for years, but the Old Gold straight was a noble cigarette. Mellow, full flavor, with just a hint of sweetness. I don't think they are even being made anymore, but if they are, and if I'm on a plane going down, and if somebody onboard is packing Old Gold straights and is ready to share, I'm there. God will understand.
Merits were for sex addicts? Why wasn't I told? And does that brand still exist? And if not...what do sex addicts smoke now?
Just wondering.
I've always hated that: I'm not a smoker, and Marlboro Reds are the cigarettes I don't smoke.
So you're a Marlboro non-smoker. ;-)
That reminds me of Garrison Keillor's comment about one of his characters, that she was Lutheran Atheist, because it was a Lutheran God in whom she did not believe. ;-)
Camel non- filters until I reluctantly gave them up 20- some years ago-- and a couple of times a year if I can find one, usually in a bar, I'll have one out of nostalgia.
And Like Derb recently wrote, if I live to be eighty I will probably start them again...
Sounds like Kit is angling for the Pull-It Surprise for Meritorifice Pubic Service...Should you win, though, dress up after hitting the tuxedo shops in Bangkok's hiphop district: I hear the awards gala is a strictly black-Thai affair...
Winston Man Dub (after "Bank Robber Dub" off Black Market Clash)
[true story; Pop quit in c. 1975, to good effect ever since, ending at 13 or so my drenching as his Second-Hand Bloke]
Daddy was a Winston Man
He never smoked no other kind
He just liked to puff away
And he loved to stink the house up
The proud and ancient lineage of Winston Men and Women, though, cannot be broadcast widely enough, extending as it does even back to the very Bedrock of our evolution as a species, though it may have slowed down the starting of the stone-wheeled family car by bare feet:
youtube.com/watch?v=mZvHiiWFbBU
Fred [lighting Wilma's Winston]: Winston tastes good, like a - [flick, flick] - cigarette should!
Let Obama smoke, I don't like his politics, but damn he needs them right now...butt if he's ever caught throwing a spent butt out the window, I hope they nail his ass to the wall with littering charges.
As for me, can someone please pass that smoke from the left.
My maternal grandfather was a sharecropper down in North Carolina -- peanuts, cotton and tobacco. He used to roll his own cigarrettes; his rolling tobacco was Prince Albert in a can. I think he's the last person I ever knew who rolled his own. Not sure what kind of man it made him.
I think he's the last person I ever knew who rolled his own.
You haven't met many hippies, and I'm referring to the perfectly legal.
Forget Rev. Wright. Forget the remarks in
San Francisco. Obama has committed the only sin left in America. This picture will be the only ad needed against him.
Growing up in Baltimore in the early 1970s the rules were simple, white guys smoked Marlboros or Winstons, black guys, primarily Kools, but Salems and Newports to a lesser extent.
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