Carl Hiaasen interview on the Rachel Maddow show

[Scuba]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#44710877


Hiaason's a great writer, and has taken on the Florida drug testing for unemployed. Good interview with Rachel.

Runs 9:01.

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1. K&R

Love Hiaason.
And Rachel!

[Little Star]

2. Here is a opinion piece Hiaasen wrote in the Miami Herald...

An offer legislators can’t refuse — or can they?
BY CARL HIAASEN

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Gov. Rick Scott’s crusade to drug-test cash welfare applicants is turning out to be another thick-headed scheme that’s backfiring on Florida taxpayers.

The biggest beneficiaries are the testing companies that collect $10 to $25 for urine, blood or hair screening, a fee being paid by the state (you and me) whenever the applicant tests clean — currently about 97 percent of the cases.

The law, which easily passed the Legislature this year, was based on the misinformed and condescending premise that welfare recipients are more prone to use illegal drugs than people who are fortunate enough to have jobs.

Statistically, the opposite is true, despite the claims of Scott and Republican legislators who cheered this unnecessary and intrusive law.
snip~~


Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/24/2423049/an-offer-legislators-cant-refuse.html#ixzz1ZLz0cW00

[Scuba]

3. Thanks for posting!

[Little Star]

4. Hi Scuba, I also...

made a post in Books/Fiction (people there read a lot of Hiaasen's books). I put a link to your post in my OP.
Here is a link to my post, hope it was ok with you: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=208x26860

[Scuba]

5. Of course; thanks.

[Erose999]

6. His book "Star Island" crossed my desk about a month ago. I wasn't too impressed when I skimmed it.

Seemed like a retread of Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters.

I might have to give it another look.

[watercolors]

7. Hiaason a favorite author of ours, thanks for the post.

I'm more impressed with him now!!