Thursday

NYT Undertones: Illegal Drugs

There seems to be a common thread throughout columns up on NYTimes.com. Should this milk be legal? is about buying raw milk that comes straight from the cow. It's highly regulated, apparently, and so our protagonist joined up with the milk mafia: "Clandestine milk clubs, like the one Mr. Milgrom-Elcott joined, are one way of circumventing the law, and there are others." Yeah, milk, right.

Next, in a tip of the hat to legal drugs out there, the NYTimes takes up prescription schwag. Because generic drugs are out there, people won't spend lots of money on the brand-names like Merxx and Pfizer, bless their greedy little hearts, that we've all come to know and name as defendants in tort actions.

Finally, to highlight some of the benefits of illegal drug use, they take up high school seniors' surprising aptitude in economics. Running a black market as an extracurricular is clearly great training to, as the title boasts, "Show Better Grasp of Market Forces Than Expected on U.S. Economics Test".

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