“Whoever you were in Baltimore, you were getting fucked”

“This season is to take argument with those who feel that if you’re born without privilege, but make the right set of choices, that you will be spared. To do away with that bit of national mythology.”
Is it tragic or is it inspiring that David Simon and Ed Burns, having spent decades seeing several sides of the drug war, seem to understand public policy and its rammifications better than any Congressperson? The Wire is the truest American folk tale we’ve got. Heard it advertised on Hot 97 this morning, lots of billboards around New York, that Stephen King column in Entertainment Weekly (which you shouldn’t read if you haven’t seen the fourth season cause he spoils key plot points)… Perhaps finally it will get its due.