By Craig Shirley | April 30, 2021 | 12:37pm EDT
Featured is Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. (Photo credit: Earl Gibson III/Getty Images)
Margaret Thatcher once famously said, “Beware the Nanny State. The state that takes too much from you in order to do too much for you.”
Fake milestones are important to some people, especially when one has to keep up the image of productivity.
If this weren’t the case, then perhaps we wouldn’t be hearing about the latest bit of tomfoolery to come out of the federal government. President Biden has reached the 100 day milestone of his first term and to mark the occasion, his government is going after menthol cigarettes.
Chris Vognar April 23, 2021Updated: April 23, 2021, 6:29 pm
Rappers Humpty Hump (Shock G) and 2 Pac of Digital Underground perform their hit song, ‘Sex Packets’ at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis in July 1990. Photo: Raymond Boyd, Getty Images 1990
The late ’80s and early ’90s were very serious years for hip-hop. Public Enemy brought the noise with heady Black nationalism and perhaps the greatest of all rap albums, “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.” N.W.A. owned gangsta rap, lashing out at law enforcement with the violent fantasies of “Straight Outta Compton.” This was no laughing matter.
Then there was this wild new crew from Oakland known as Digital Underground. Their leader rapper and producer Gregory Edward Jacobs, better known by his stage name Shock G donned a fake nose, glasses, fur hat and nasal delivery to create an alter ego named Humpty Hump. Their breakthrough album, 1990’s “Sex Packets,” blended punch lines with