GREEN JERK

California Attorney General Jerry Brown GJ filed eleven felony charges yesterday against Howard K. Stern and two doctors, Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich. Jerry alleges they provided the late Anna Nicole Smith, whose death was ruled an accidental overdose, with thousands of prescription drugs, including opiates and sedatives. Jerry, Jerry, Jerry.

Ostensibly, GJ appears to be as green as one can be. He likes arugula, broccoli and flax multibran cereal; hiked to the top of half dome; made first trip to Yosemite National Park at the age of four; and his first car was a 1974 green Plymouth. While serving as California Governor as did his father GJ was nicknamed “Governor Moonbeam” as a result of his unorthodox ideas like the establishment of a state space academy and the purchase of a satellite that would be launched into orbit to provide emergency communications for the state. At the time POG VC thought GJ innovative and misunderstood.

Back in the mid-1970’s GJ could occasionally be seen dating high-profile women, the most notable of whom was Linda Ronstadt, who he took to Africa. As a result of the press stalking them to the airport Linda hid in the ladies room. The couple made the cover Newsweek magazine in April 1979. In a 1975 interview with Rolling Stone “Heartbreak on Wheels” by Ben Fong-Torres, Linda admitted resorting to “plenty of cocaine” during the Neil Young tour in 1973. In the same article she said she has taken just about every drug around, she said in answer to a question. But she's given up almost every one. Grass once made her hands swell, she said. Cocaine made her "feel terrible. And I also can't take opiates." Nor can she drink. A steady diet of gin, she said, made her dizzy and she thought she had vertigo. Other drinks gave her skin rashes. She tried heroin "once or twice, but it's not for me." She can take speed and declared Methedrine her only remaining vice. H-m-m-m-m-m...timeline...early ‘70’s...h-m-m-m-m-m. During those years POG VC attended a Ronstadt concert and Linda was literally carried on and off the stage. POG VC was struck at how she managed to perform beautifully in her obviously stoned condition.

There is no judgment here. POG VC cares not what GJ and Linda did or did not do and
is not advocating for the use of drugs by Linda, Anna Nicole or anyone. POG VC's point is if GJ is so adamant, "These individuals repeatedly and excessively furnished thousands of prescription pills to Anna Nicole Smith, often for no legitimate medical purpose," then why in all these years as a politician has he not looked into the individuals who provided his once girlfriend the illegal drugs she readily admits to taking? NOW THAT’S HYPOCRISY!

Further, then Governor of California GJ often visited his friend Gary Snyder's (known as the Zen Poet and winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for poetry) farmhouse Kitkitdizze, a destination and hangout for hippies. Snyder participated in the Six Gallery reading in San Francisco, at which Allen Ginsberg first read Howl. Poet Ginsberg authored the Great Marijuana Hoax: First Manifesto to End the Bringdown published in November of 1966 and also admitted that he had “smoked a lot of marijuana.” Through a recommendation from friend Gary Snyder, Governor GJ named Coyote to the California Arts Council in 1975. The next year he was named its chairman, remaining head of the Council from 1976 to 1983. As head of the council PC acted as an advocate for and funder of all sorts of arts programs and grants throughout the state.

Peter Coyote who also visited Kitkitdizze back in the day, performed with a guerillatheater group the San Francisco Mime Troupe who at that time was managed by a young Bill Graham. Coyote began running with the Diggers, a legendary group at
the time, which organized free public music performances by such groups as The Grateful Dead and Big Brother & the Holding Company. Coyote claims in his memoir Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle that Janis Joplin, lead singer for BB&HC, was a good friend and a "sometime lover, sometime dope partner." As we all know Janis died tragically from a drug overdose in 1970.

As Coyote had lived in the late ‘60’s at Olema (“Coyote Valley” in the indigenous Miwok language) commune on the Point Reyes Peninsula in Northern California which he founded and was considered its patriarch. The commune was infamously referenced in Lowell (Banana) Levinger’s “Hippy From Olema” recorded by his group The Youngbloods who also lived on the peninsula, POG VC was not surprised when Minnie DiPrima, daughter of Diane DiPrima and LeRoi Jones (later known as Imaru Baraka), was named the recipient of a $GREEN$10,000 grant. Minnie was a talented ‘tween but thatsa lotta $GREEN$1 to put in the hands of a fourteen-year old. Diane Di Prima writes in her memoir Recollections Of My Life As A Woman: The New York Years, that she smoked marijuana and hashish, and took LSD before it became illegal.

The point of this rather long GJ history rant by forum standards is clear. Again, no judgment here, just the facts regarding the illegal substances GJ's friends used and in some cases died from. NOW THAT’S HYPOCRISY!