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Mad Magazine publisher William Gaines on their
early anti-smoking humor.
I think that you could say this about
a lot of liberal tenets: Women’s rights, racial equality, gay marriage,
legalization of marijuana, climate change, green energy, mass transit, bicycles
as a means of transportation, progressive income taxes, universal health care
and education, and on and on. When have conservatives ever been in the vanguard
of anything important? Most of their decisions have been train wrecks: cutting
taxes on the wealthiest Americans, cutting education budgets, our failed wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as their staunch opposition to most of the
things I listed as liberal triumphs.
