Rush Limbaugh gets off with a slap on the wrist for his drug use.
Talk about mixed feelings here, for me. Limbaugh has repeatedly called for severe sentences for drug users, and an average joe caught in the same circumstances as he could see lengthy jail time.
There's no justice in sending someone to jail for taking pills, so I should be glad for Rush, but it would be justice of the poetic variety to see him sent up. Most importantly, it would have demonstrated how absurd our drug laws are for a person like him, whose drug use harmed absolutely no one, (save perhaps himself) to be prosecuted and sentenced to umpteen years in the pokey.
That sort of thing happens every day to the not-so-rich and famous.
Talkleft has the scoop on the legal deal.
Posted by Walter at April 29, 2006 07:53 AM