Huckabee tells a joke about old hippie baby boomers, who are about to realize they can get free drugs from Medicare.

Surveys of medical marijuana patients show that they use far fewer prescription medications than people with the same illnesses or conditions who don't use marijuana.

Ask Melissa Etheridge -- she chose to treat her chemo side effects with marijuana because the Big Pharm medications all had side effects that required treatment with other Big Pharm medications.

On Dateline she said she would have had to take at least five different Big Pharm medications to do the job that marijuana did all by itself.

I'm getting to the point of smugness now where I think -- hey -- if you don't want medical marijuana -- then you're WELCOME to suffer with the alternatives.

Just don't stand in the way of people who decide otherwise.

And here's something else from a NORML press release that the aging neocons would do well to ponder:

August 17, 2006 -- La Jolla, CA: THC inhibits the formation of amyloid plaque, the primary marker for Alzheimer's disease (AD), far more effectively than approved medications, according to preclinical data to be published in the journal Molecular Pharmaceutics.

Go ahead -- use Aricept for Alzheimer's, even though the above research showed that Aricept is only about a third as effective as the active ingredients in marijuana when it comes to blocking beta amyloid plaques.

So far it looks like the old hippie baby boomers who are willing to use pot will probably have a much a better chance of fighting Alzheimer's than the aging neocons who insist on sticking with Aricept.

Go ahead, aging neocons -- keep sticking to your staunch moral position against medical marijuana.

Let's see where you all are ten years from now, compared with the aging hippies who are willing to try it.

I agree, Tereshkova was mainly for propaganda. However, she did prove that a woman could be flung into into outer space in a tiny tin can and be brave enough come back with a smile.

But meanwhile in America, throughout the sixties, NASA tested women for spaceflight. All the data said that the women being tested performed as well as, if not better than, than the men who were already in the astronaut program.

But the data was not acted upon. Instead they treated it like the Nixon/Ford administration treated the evidence that THC kills breast and lung cancer cells -- they buried so deeply that it literally vanished from public view for 20 years.

That's not something to be proud of.

They buried scientific data and conducted their astronaut program as if this data had never been gathered in their labs.

Lying about science is something that really burns me and I have a hard time forgiving it when I see it happen.

Now thank goodness the lies have finally lost all their power.

Why should we look like some freaks with big lips that look like an anus?

I think this in danger of being a racist sentiment even though she's aiming at cosmetic surgery.

Thanks to hip hop, the standard of beauty across the world has become less white. Flat bottoms and thin lips are out. Curvy behinds and thick lips are in.

As the national poster boy for this transition, consider Brad Pitt abandoning skinny-lipped white girl Jennifer for the plush-mouthed multiracial-looking Angelina.

That's why so many white women are trying to plump up their lips, and why Jessica Simpson wore butt falsies in the Dukes of Hazzard movie.

So Satrapi's comments make me a little uneasy. I understand what she's getting at, but I don't like the way she's chosen to say it.

It's amazing how Salon has edited the War on Drugs out of American history. I guess it really is politically untouchable these days.

However much liberal critics (like this writer) might disagree with them, Republican presidents from Ford to Reagan to the elder Bush generally refrained from radically changing American institutions, law and values.

I would claim that the War on Drugs has created radical changes, and these radical changes have contributed enormously to the downward slope we're on right now, where we're locked in a state of endless armed war even with our own citizens.

But since the War on Drugs apparently never happened, and had nothing to do with conservatives, and doesn't involve the split between the two styles of conservatism, I guess I must be wrong.

If you feel like raising your blood pressure, it airs this Saturday, Oct. 27, at 9 p.m.

No, this goose anus thing has already got my blood pressure high enough.

I'll guess there'll never be enough hate in the world, will there?