NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN: METH POSTURING BY POLITICIANS

Well, Sports Fans, we're in political spring training and the politicians are all trotting out their anti-meth positions. Almost all of this amounts to "I hate meth more than you do!" or " I'll try harder to bust meth than you will!" It's all pretty stupid.

Think about it. Do you know any registered, likely voters who are pro-meth? It's easy to be against. That takes no talent.

If someone has a genuinely new approach, great. Let's hear about it. Lisa Madigan, for example had an honest-to-God innovative approach for child protection. That was productive. Most other people running for Law Enforcement office just posture on the topic, just like they did with weed years ago and powder cocaine relatively recently.

We could skip a lot boredom and demagoguery if both candidates for Sheriff in any county would just agree that both of them think meth is terrible. Perhaps then they could move on to genuine differences about budgeting, assignments, rural crime, identity theft and things where the public might actually be able to learn something about the candidates and the office.