June 19, 2004

  • Bush's plan to dose Americans with expensive antipsychotics

    According to this British Medical Journal article, "Lilly made $1.6m in political contributions in 2000—82% of which went to Bush and the Republican Party."

    So it's not surprising that the President announced a plan to screen the entire US population for mental illness and pump lots and lots of people full of expensive Eli Lilly drugs.

    There's a theme in the Bush administration: When you're fucking up badly (Enron tapes, Ashcroft telling Congress to screw, 9/11 commission telling the world that you invaded Iraq for essentially no reason at all), fuck up in a smaller way for the current news cycle.

    But it's nice to perhaps have a POLICY discussion rather than one about whether or not America's turning into a theocratic facist imperial power.