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This strikes me in a couple of ways. Number one...it's a deflective device to draw attention away from the very serious issue of sabotage and employee satisfaction among government contractors, which as anyone who's ever worked with or for the feds knows is a huge pain in the ass and absolutely likely to generate this kind of dangerously irrational act...like postal employees on juice...so, let's not look under that rock.
Secondly, this seems to be just another skirmish in the manic obsession for health and social hygene. Oh, it's all so rational until it becomes a force that destroys people's lives...so in an interest to keep one person's little monster-offspring from ever encountering drugs which are primarily used to feel good and are NOT created by big pharma, we have laws about 'em which cause the destruction of countless other lives as people are tossed into the obscurity of that system of legalized torture (our prison system) in order to teach us all a quickly forgotten lesson about "sin" and learn nothing about public health. So much for the freedom to pursue one's own kind of happiness.
It's obvious that no astronaut ever endangered the mission by being drunk and the media is having a field day by equating astronauts having a nip, with their own experiences where reporters can be totally blasted at the neighboring bar and still put in an appearance and actually create a product that must be the result of a intoxicated mind...which explains a lot, come to think about it, about why our media is a travesty and having extended the first ammendment to protect the rabid greed and ideological sociopaths at our major outlets and even the whitehouse's press department, is the shits.
