Feet And The Ground

Before presenting this solid proof that I know what I'm talking about all the time make no mistake, I shall first beg your indulgence and clarify something from my previous blog.

In my previous blog, wherein I refer to specific things on Letterman and Conan regarding alcohol use, I expressed my belief that these TV shows did things apropos of what I had stated earlier that day in a comment (on Huffington Post in response to an article) about excessive targeting of pot use when alcohol use can just as easily be targeted. I believe this kind of targeting has less to do with the effect of pot on people and more to do with alcohol being legal, so therefore talk show hosts tended towards letting that fact make their choice for them regarding whose mind functionality to ridicule. However, I did not mean to say that alcohol use is never a target, nor that every time it is this is therefore being done apropos of something I stated. I was very specific about the very specific context that led to this specific assessment in this specific instance.

I might also add that, while it is generally understood that alcohol use can mean the consumption of a dignified glass of wine with dinner, and not necessarily drinking a bottle of whiskey five times a day causing one to be drunk on one's ear, the correlation in terms of pot seems strangely absent. Pot use is only represented as causing people to be stoned out of their minds, with no balanced mind functionality and no entitlement to dignity while under the influence, unlike those who use alcohol in moderation. Until this changes, I must condemn such blatant prejudice and the dangerous, massive disrespect of and interference against all of the legitimate people doing important things that it propagates. Is it just ignorance of the relatively benign aspects of pot use, or a tendency to offer up a random group of people for everyone to beat up on (perhaps without physical violence, but beat up just the same), tapping into the suppressed malicious bile of neurotics passing themselves off as the embodiment of sanity? And portraying themselves as society's voices of morality?

Letterman and Conan, you are of course terrific, I know you can cold turkey on this urge to ridicule pot use, and when it's over, and you're just targeting Republicans and right-wing Democrats as you should, you'll see it was worth it, and you'll have me to thank, but you'll never acknowledge my contributions outright, will you? No, never. Well anyway, the following videoclip, which makes reference to the 7/23/09 Conan in relation to my 1993 "Mall Man" video, pretty much speaks for itself (may I add that it should be seen in the context that for over a month now I've been pointing out that I recently seem to have some kind of a place influencing late night television, more than I usually do, at least):