Government should take this approach. If someone wants to hurt themselves (such as with drink or drugs) ... leave them alone. Only if a person poses a direct threat to others should the government propose laws to intervene. -- Joe, Rochester, MI
Billie Holiday wasn't insane cause of drugs. Sane people do stupid things like skydive, climb mountains, deep sea dive, snort cocaine, etc. The idiots in Washington poke their nose into everything, sane or not, they say to keep people safe, but they only keep people from “...the pursuit of happiness...”, which I read somewhere, oh yeah, the Declaration of Independence. -- Anon., Nashville Tenn.
-- Jean-O, Savannah GA
Right On, Billie! -- Lee N$, Philadelphia
Moral indignation: The death-grip of fear that someone, somewhere, might be having a better time than you've ever had or are likely to ever have and is laughing at you because they know it. -- Terry Berg, Occidental, CA
Not a bad point, True in fact. -- Gölök Zoltán Leenderdt Franco Buday, Vancouver, GVRD(Paine Cnty), Coastal Lwr Mainland BC(State of Neo Sumer), U.S. of Eh!
oh, so true... -- AL, washington dc
What would Billie say about the many thousands of alcohol-related traffic deaths? -- David L. Rosenthal, Hollywood
It's so hard for a non-medium to know what a deceased person WOULD say. What she DID say in this quote is "I never hurt nobody but myself . . ." - hardly the kind of thing that qualifies as a crime -- Terry Berg, Occidental, CA
-- Anonymous
-- Anon., Nashville Tenn.
