"The only way I could get through that time was to drink. I poisoned myself with alcohol for years but I've never been into drugs in the way it was sometimes made out." Oh, the exquisite pain of being Johnny Depp -…
... arrested on drug felony charges. Questions: 1. What drug? 2. Will Bristol Palin ever marry Levi Johnston? 3. Bristol's baby -- a boy -- is due tomorrow. Will Andrew Sullivan stop obsessing about whether Trig -- born Apr…
I've been reading and listening to people talk for over a half century, so it's really weird to have to look up 2 words in 2 hours. First, MadisonMan, he of the bird's-eye view of the Michelle Obama rally-ette, said :…
When California voted for Proposition 215, they were picturing terribly ill patients and modest houseplants, but, of course, it doesn't stop there. The NYT reports : [P]atients need a prescription to acquire medicinal marijua…
Life in Canada: Ottawa is wrong to appeal a British Columbia Supreme Court ruling that extended a government-funded safe-injection site for junkies. Instead, it should have done its duty and resolved the case once and for all. As…
With all this trouble Barack Obama has been having with his connection or seeming connection to religion that either is or seems extremist, wouldn't this be a good time to remind folks that John McCain's religion is the m…
Bill Cosby — on "Meet the Press" — urges parents to subject their children to intense, prison-style searches: When you—when—there’s a, there’s a friend of mine who was in jail. He is now a pastor in, in Wilmington. A…
How painful to see the destruction of a heroine. Marion Jones — winner of 3 Olympic gold medals — has pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators and admitted about taking steroids.
Said by me, from the dentist chair this morning, under the influence of piped-in music and piped-in nitrous oxide. The dentist informs me that the "horse" in the song was heroin, and that she's always liked the song…
This is getting bizarre! Are people really watching? Anyway... I'm going to watch. I'll try to pay more attention tonight, now that "The Sopranos" aren't on. ( It's on CNN , at what I like to call 6 Cent…
In the new podcast , I stumble into a marijuana festival, I submerge myself in a comparison of Foleygate to "The Vagina Monologues," I stare too deeply into a postcard photograph of my grandmother, and I end up wonderin…
"Smoking pot may stave off Alzheimer's disease." ADDED: This story makes me think of the old line, "You can't fire me, I quit." I'm not going to let some disease destroy my intellectual powers, I&#…
I hadn't gone out to a movie theater, I think, since last December January . (The movie was "Capote.") I'd been considering various movies but never quite got sufficiently motivated until today. It's not ju…
By Michael Kimmel (via A&L Daily ): I may be 30, but I act 15. I am adrift in New York. I'm too clever by half for my own good. I live on puns and snide, sarcastic asides. I don't look too deeply into myself or anyon…
Accused of running a house of prostitution in her $400,000 suburban home. The neighbors had gotten suspicious: For months, Bonnie Sorak and other residents on Shirley Meadow Court had speculated about the goings-on at the home …
No, this post isn't about "The Da Vinci Code." It's a nice found video of Lou Reed singing "Heroin," back in 1972, with John Cale playing the electric viola. (Via Boing Boing .) And then Nico sings &…
From today's Science Times, psychiatrist Paul Steinberg writes: We live in an information age, in a knowledge-based economy. For those of us who have "attention-surplus disorder" — a term coined by Dr. Ned Hallowel…