Penn and Teller: Bullshit! – second season (2004) on Showtime with the dynamic duo confronting:

(1) PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and ALF (Animal Liberation Front) for their hypocritical, violent acts against people and property (e.g., opposition to medical research using animals when at least one of PETA’s own officers had medical treatment from such research) and their ludicrous policy of freeing all animals not only from research and zoos, but from homes as well, meaning all pets!.

(2) The safety hysteria that employs fear of cancer from cell phones, germs from toilet seats, and the threat of terrorism as marketing opportunities.

(3) Speed dating and online dating services along with publications such as Ellen Fein’s The Rules and Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray (phony Ph.D).

(4) The war on drugs, which is another government failure since illegal drug use has not declined but continues to rise, featuring Robert Weiner, White House drug spokesman (and what a wiener he is), spouting lies (taking cues from his boss) in favor of legislating morality that deprives Americans of their freedoms, versus Keith Stroup of NORML. (Interestingly, Penn declares at the outset of the final segments that he doesn’t use drugs or alcohol). A rational, objective approach to handling dangerous drugs, including frequent abuse of prescription drugs, would begin with the facts rather than emotional hyperbole, recognizing that some illegal drugs such as marijuana are less dangerous than alcohol and tobacco plus have properties useful as medications. Further, tens of thousands of otherwise law-abiding citizens are incarcerated for victimless crimes, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. Legalizing drugs could solve many more societal problems than the present policy, eliminating drug gangs and their violent turf battles, including curtailing the drug trade in opium and heroin from Afghanistan that bankrolls the resurgence of the Taliban there.

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