If he loses, Jim Talent can spend long hours pondering how he got his ass kicked by a guy who can barely walk.
Tim at Balloon Juice on Michael J. Fox’s impact on the Missouri Senate race:
If he loses, Jim Talent can spend long hours pondering how he got his ass kicked by a guy who can barely walk.
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
Books:
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
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Less depressing for Talent, I think, than what Ashcroft went through: he lost to a dead guy.
Seeing as Ashcroft got beat in Missouri by someone who was no longer alive, that seems like a very fitting outcome.