This headline sucks

Maybe if we helped the most vulnerable and devalued members of society overcome drug addiction through harm reduction measures then perhaps deranged unnameable whackjobs would not be able to slaughter 49 women with impunity. Then the Canadian public would not have to be assaulted with the worst headline ever:

Murder allegations 'hogwash,' Pickton told Mountie

A note to all headline writers everywhere. Pay attention! Do not put a pun in a headline that is covering the trial of a scumbag that allegedly slaughtered 49 women.

I really wish that the politicians would let science and medicine prevail instead of political ideology. The senseless opposition to making drug users lives easier and safer makes no sense. They have this unshakeable dogma that sounds like this: "Drugs are bad, m'kay, you shouldn't do drugs." The conservatives will make no exceptions and don't seem to be willing to look outside of their narrow-minded little "Drugs are bad" box.

Conservatives are supposed to be in favor of small government and fiscal conservatism aren't they? Do the not consider the economic costs of having homeless, sick, drug-addicted people contracting bloodborne illnesses? The economic impact of treating one AIDS patient has to be less than the cost of handing out clean needles to addicts or providing needle-free maintenance drug therapy. The sooner we vote these bums out of office, the better.