Come on Jack. Is there an anti-drug war story you don't like?

I bought RS on your recommendation and the story is very good...for getting me to sleep at night. It's almost as long as the drug war itself.

I like reading things that tell me things I don't already know. This story doesn't. It's just grist for those 40- and 50-year-olds who still take bong hits and fantasize about peace and love, yadda, yadda, yadda. Spare me.

Hmmm. That makes me wonder why every other Shafer column is about drugs. We need a press critic critic.

You want a story that looks back at our Central American history and reveals something? Turn to Mark Danner's New Yorker piece about the 1981 massacre at El Mozote. No bong hits there.