President Bush's Speech; Outlaw Cigarettes?; Rejection Collection
President Bush's Speech
This morning, in a pre-election speech at the White House, President Bush said that while he says he's "not satisfied" with the situation in Iraq, the U-S is "absolutely" winning. Larry and his guests discuss the President's views on the war in Iraq as well as his prediction that Republicans will hold control of the House and Senate in the upcoming mid-term elections, despite widespread predictions to the contrary.
Outlaw Cigarettes?
A new Zogby Poll commissioned by the Drug Policy Alliance asked 1,200 Americans if they support federal legislation that would make cigarettes illegal in the next five to ten years. The Alliance will release detailed results Thursday, but the initial response indicates that 45 percent of Americans would support outlawing cigarettes in the next few years. Larry talks to Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, about the policy implications behind this research.
Rejection Collection
Each week about fifty cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred cartoons, for a mere twenty spots in The New Yorker magazine. Thousands of these brilliant "rejects" have been piling up in artist's studios around the country for years. Larry talks with Matthew Diffee, co-editor of the new book, The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker, about his favorite rejects, what Diffee calls "the cream of the crap" that he has gathered in this new, and truly never before seen, volume of cartoons.