speaking of the wire...

David Simon is awesome:

When the U.S. attorney-general recently declared himself a super-fan of HBO's crime drama "The Wire" and expressed his fond wish for a sixth season, he should have known that the famously blunt-spoken David Simon, creator of "The Wire" and co-creator of "Treme," would treat it as a fresh opportunity to criticize U.S. drug policy.


Simon, who was a Baltimore Sun crime reporter before he got into series TV, wrote a sarcastic email to the London Times answering Holder: "The Attorney-General's kind remarks are noted and appreciated. I've spoken to Ed Burns and we are prepared to go to work on season six of 'The Wire' if the Department of Justice is equally ready to reconsider and address its continuing prosecution of our misguided, destructive and dehumanizing drug prohibition."

salon.