He’s like, “Shut up, man. Whatever man. Skip, man, was a shot.” And I’m like, “Rah, this is a bit of a weird reaction?”

Since late July, the Taliban have seized new territory across Helmand, defying a series of about 30 US airstrikes, and raising concern of an attack on the capital.

I got some pot cheap on the street.

But this governance exercise quickly degenerated into a cash grab exercise (fundamentally corrupting the original purposes), when deficit and debt reduction became the categorical imperative.