Thursday, September 13, 2007
Mountain Dew Is a Bigger Threat than Terrorists [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Last night Yahoo!, the Huffington Post, and Slate held a presidential forum. They invited Bill Maher to ask the candidates who showed some questions. Exchanges included (via AP ):
Maher, with his offbeat questions, provoked some interesting responses from the candidates.
_Dodd told Maher he would not legalize marijuana, but would favor decriminalizing the drug in part to prevent prison overcrowding.
Biden, asked to rank the relative dangers of high fructose corn syrup, coal soot or a terrorist strike, chose air with too much coal in it, followed by corn syrup. "But that is not in any way to diminish the fact that a terrorist attack is real," he added.
09/13 03:15 PM
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