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To: koan who wrote (194020)	6/17/2010 11:51:41 AM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361880

I generally like Rachel Maddow, but Wharfy has a point. There is this tendency by liberals to be long on critiques and short on solutions. This is the big problem I have with Michael Moore. I love his critiques of problems, but where are the solutions? Rachel needs to do a show on the real alternative energy solutions that could actually lead to an end to the oil age madness. Michael Moore missed his chance to do the same at the end of F911, and perhaps his next documentary should be about moving beyond the oil age and its wars and pollution. Rachel Maddow also tends to be too dismissive at times. Last week I was watching her and she was dissing the far right Tea Party Senate candidate from Nevada, Sharron Angle, for her views on the legalization of alcohol and marijuana. Actually, Ms. Angle raises an excellent point that should be part of a rational debate about marijuana legalization, not marginalized. How is it marijuana is illegal, but we allow a much more dangerous substance like alcohol to be legal? I have often asked this question myself. There is no reason to diss this line of reasoning. Perhaps Rachel should have turned it around as a good argument for the legalization of marijuana, a safer substance.