Jezebel has a great blog on this today (check the comments.) It’s a complicated issue. I have PTSD (who the hell doesn’t?) from a combo of horrible events, but I haven’t taken drugs since the early 90s. In fact, what got me to stop them was one particularly suicidal comedown on x that involved three of us - all gone home - in the same boat. It just wasn’t worth it. I’m all for better treatments of PTSD - I’ve done the usual therapy + meds with pretty good results, as long as I keep it all up and exercise, eat right, sleep, etc. as well - but that doesn’t cure “it” .. it just keeps “it” at bay. I wish I could feel those great, warm, peace+love and “all is okay” feelings that I felt way-back-when on x, but those comedowns are something that I don’t think antidepressants can even help.
Steven Colbert, because even with the writer’s strike, I still get reruns (the Willie Nelson ep!) and his article on Glamour.com, complete with slideshow: “10 WOMEN WITH “LADY BALLS.”
Good news, girls! You don’t have to be a man to have balls. You can be a lady and have “lady balls,” or what I like to call “Thatchers,” after England’s Iron Lady, who had a lordly pair of lead swingers.
(CNN) — The government asked a federal court Tuesday to order former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick to keep on hand assets valued at more than $900,000 — the amount earmarked for the care of 54 pit bulls. The animals were found on his property when a dogfighting operation was busted last April.
Vick turned himself in to authorities Monday to get a jump start on serving his sentence for running the ring.
In a motion filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson noted that Vick, in his plea agreement, agreed to pay “restitution for the full amount of the costs associated with the disposition of all dogs” in the case.
Vick agreed that those costs could include “the long-term care and/or the humane euthanasia of some or all of those animals,” which were seized from the “Bad Newz Kennels” on his property in Surry County, Virginia.
I’ve never wanted kids and I rarely like them, as you can probably tell from my blogging. But this little feller just cries out “adopt me!” Just think - he could be my very own Arnold Ziffel … much smarter than most children, and I won’t have to worry about him stabbing a sibling over the tv. I’m already picturing the Christmas cards I could make with me as Mary and him as the Baby J!
Stowaway piglet survives toilet roll ordeal
LONDON (Reuters) - A piglet nicknamed Andrex is recovering after being found in the back of a truck full of toilet paper at a supermarket.
The animal, thought to be two or three weeks old, was discovered in a delivery at a Tesco store in Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
Staff wrapped the piglet in a duvet and called the RSPCA, a Tesco spokesman said Tuesday.
He was taken to an animal shelter in Radcliffe-on-Trent, outside Nottingham, suffering from cuts and bruises to his snout.
“We will now care for him until he is fit enough to be found a permanent home,” said Ella Herring, the shelter’s deputy manager.
Tesco said store workers were unsure of how the piglet came to be on the truck, but thought it may have been a prank.
“Staff are used to dealing with the unexpected, but little Andrex’s arrival was a shock,” a Tesco spokesman said. “They took it in their stride, wrapping him up straightaway in a duvet in the manager’s office and calling the RSPCA for advice and help.”
Just like the one in FL who stabbed the other over an unidentified “frozen dessert,” this one comes from AZ:
PHOENIX - A 12-year-old boy stabbed his 13-year-old brother during a fight over what to watch on television, police said.
The 13-year-old was listed in extremely critical condition Monday night. The brothers were fighting in the living room of their southwest Phoenix home Monday afternoon.
The younger brother allegedly went to the kitchen, returned with a knife and allegedly stabbed his brother once in the abdomen with a 5-inch blade, said Phoenix Police Lt. Rob Howe.
The boys’ father heard them fighting over the TV. He entered the living room and the victim told his father he had been stabbed by his younger brother before collapsing, Phoenix Police Sgt. Joel Tranter said.
A 7-year-old sister was home but in a different room at the time of the stabbing, Howe said. Police are treating the house as a crime scene and are still investigating.
The suspect was in custody Monday night, Tranter said.
Hmm … “What not to Wear”? “Iron Chef”? “Project Runway”?
I’m a big fan of Hungrygirl. Being one myself, I like their daily emails with food info, esp because they include lots of junk food. That’s where I get those “today is national carbonated beverages with caffeine day!” things (that actually is today, no joke.) So when I read this about Quizno’s, I almost choked:
In a surprising turn of events, Quiznos, one of the fast food sandwich chains known for keeping their nutrition information hush-hush, has FINALLY gone public with their nutritional stats. The good news is, now you can check out their site and decide which items work for you and which ones you should avoid. Just click on a food category under “MENU”, scroll to the bottom of the page, and hit “Show Nutrition Information”. The bad news is, we found some shockingly horrifying stats there… be prepared to cry real tears, people:
Honey Mustard Dressing - OMG! Each serving of this stuff ALONE has 500 calories and 50g fat!!!! AHHHHHH! We’re too freaked out to say anything else about it.
Tuna Melt Sub - A large one has 2,090 calories & 175g fat!!!! ! Ummmm… that is the most frightening tuna stat EVER.
Flatbread - If you order one of their Flatbread Chopped Salads, know that the bread alone adds 330 calories and 12g fat to your meal, so don’t eat all FOUR pieces (yikes!).
Patterico pees himself, a la Roger Simon, after John Cole mocks Patty’s stupid post on the hypothetical morality of waterboarding with a hypothetical kick in the balls.
Cole points out that both posts involved hypothetical, not real, physical confrontation:
Patterico- it was just a hypothetical, boss. And just like your hypothetical, neither is rooted in reality (not to mention the hypothetical never even mentioned you).
To which Pattycakes responds by making the stupidest blogging comment evar:
But there’s nothing irresponsible about talking to that crowd about committing violent acts on conservatives. I’m sure if Michelle Malkin ever did the reverse — “mocking” a liberal by talking about kicking him, while addressing an audience predisposed to think liberals are less than human — John Cole would take it in stride as just joshin’.
Of course, that would never happen. Because Michelle Malkin has far more class than John Cole ever will.
We are speechless. “Class” doesn’t even begin to describe Malkin. Calling Malkin “classy” is like calling Shaq O’Neal “bulemic” or Michael Ledeen “peacenik.”
Ooh, we’ve been neglecting this one. Actor212 writes:
I have some cockpunching candidates, if you still do that, gang…
At Balloon Juice, Mike Patterico makes a complete ass of himself because, hypothetically, John Cole threatens to kick his ass.
Oh, and at PJ Media, Ron Silver…
PS. Dan Collins over at Protein Wisdom, as well.
He stalked an old girlfriend and posted an ethics complaint lodged against her on-line!
And then defended it, despite Jeff Goldstein’s dismay! LOL!
