In other news, the sun rose in the east…

Looks like the ridiculous Homeland Stupidity intrusions into personal lives along the border has finally paid off.   I used to have to stop for the silly border patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca about four times a week (I was driving railroad workers to El Paso) and never could figure out what it was really supposed to do, until now… lay in wait for Willie Nelson:

Don’t you feel safer knowing that Border Patrol checkpoints are catching septuagenarian music stars with pot? I’d like to meet the genius investigator who figured out there might be marijuana in Willie Nelson’s tour bus. Perhaps he thinks this will teach Shotgun Willie a lesson and henceforth he’ll abstain?

Drug cartels are all but running parts of Mexico, while large quantities of drugs continue to successfully make their way north, with guns flowing south. None of these checkpoints, unmanned drones or other over-hyped tactics seem to make a dent in that problem, but at least they caught Willie, making him wait a few hours…

Hell, it was only six ounces (which probably just meant Willie hadn’t had a chance to brush out his hair in that morning).  OK, so he leans on old familiar ways — the guy is pushing 80 after all — and still crazy after all these years.