Man, in a strange sense I miss listening to LiveLine everyday. Partly
because I like letting myself get angered at Joe ' The Fucking Idiot'
Duffy's pathetic attempts at broadcasting and partly because I keep
missing out on all all the micro-scandals invented and perpetuated
on his show.

I'm taking a wild guess that the recent Mushroom scandal found
a home on LiveLine. Having also given up buying newspapers and
the news I only found about this today: in a terrific knee-jerk
response to some kid's mushie related death, my beloved fungi is
now officially illegal.

I don't particular care about them being banned. Hey, they're
free and picking them is part of the ritual but what annoys me is
that an ammendment to a law can be passed in a matter of days.
It's worrying. Not just on the civil (yawn) liberties front but the
way if Joe 'Wankstain' Duffy airs his voice of impartial reason
and the concerned mammies blab their stories to the Sun, a law
can be rushed through to 'close a loophole'.

Public opinion is a both a tremendous and fickle force.
Remember when Xtra Vision pulled all copies of Childs Play 3
after Jamie Bulger was killed? That made me sick. Are Dunnes
Stores Homeware Dept's going to get to picketed next time
some is killed with a kitchen knife?

Even money says a kid will blow both his hands off this
Halloween and the 'loophole' on selling fireworks will be closed.
I think mushies and fireworks should be banned/regulated but
why the fuck does it have to happen directly after media
panic? It makes the Government look even more stupid
while allowing Joe 'Mackerel' Duffy and the hacks in the
tabloids to suck eachother's dicks while taking credit. And what's
worse is that the average twit holds LiveLine and The Mirror up
as the bastions of democracy, a gossip phone-in show and a
celebrity rumour rag posing as a newspaper.

Thank God. Magic Mushrooms are now illegal and will put all the
Head shops out of biz. As said by Briann O' Connor in today's Irish
Times; owner of few shops that sell shroomies:

'If this only became illegal at 4pm today, then why was I arrested
all those times, and why did the gardai confiscate 20,000 Euro
worth of my stock?'

That's what I'm talking about, livleyhoods destroyed at a drop
of a hat and kids now turning to the greater evils of coke and booze now
that their Saturday Trip is cancelled. Smashing.