From the mailbag:

Yesterday at about 3:30pm I saw two Caucasian (gasp!) kids smoking crack just outside the Associated Supermarket on Bleecker Street & LaGuardia Place. They were sitting on some steps in broad-ass daylight getting ready to light the crack pipe. The toker was trying to obscure himself by pulling his jacket over his head. His buddy was excitedly eyeing the pipe waiting for his turn to hit it; I swear to christ I think I saw him lick his lips in anticipation. They both looked NYU-ish which isn't surprising considering the location.

We're not sure we buy this, but if it's true, we can't overemphasize the potential impact of such a development. If the privileged white youth of New York are getting into crack, that leaves nary a drug for the our city's poor and disenfranchised! Before long, there won't be a single affordable vice on Millionaire Island, and we'll all be sober and tragic.

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