Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly a lot better than no drugs at all...But get this: the two most widely abused and addictive and destructive of all substances are both perfectly legal.
One, of course, is ethyl alcohol. And President George W. Bush, no less, and by his own admission, was smashed, or tiddley-poo, or four sheets to the wind a good deal of the time from when he was sixteen until he was forty. When he was forty-one, he says, Jesus appeared to him and made him knock off the sauce, stop gargling nose paint.
Other drunks have seen pink elephants.
And in case you were wondering, the other abused and addictive and destructive substance Vonnegut talks about is one that has also played a big part in President Bush's life: oil.
