I think it was Keith who famously said, “I don’t have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with cops.”

Or something like that.

Today, the web (webosphere?) reports that an anti-smoking drug (Chantix — it sounds like an American Idol almost-finalist) also helps with alcohol addiction. Apparently, smoking and drinking are often associated and … fuck, just read the story.

eCanadaNow, one of 100s of sites to carry the story decided to illustrate the report with this picture:

And their point is … ?

That’s what happened this weekend. But until I’ve got the presence of mind to relate the story, console yourself with this beauty:

Rice saw a terrorist attack coming. As National Security Advisor, she failed to prevent it. If she failed because she didn’t see this type of attack coming, well then, that’s all the worse. With a dirty bomb, she could at least blame insufficient congressional appropriations for radiological detectors. Claiming that the terrorists outthought you, however, is not an exculpatory assertion.

back to the ranch. hold down the fort, actor.

. . . a worried nation asks.

He’s been over on Instaputz writing this classic post on Mad Althouse.

My guess is the dumbshit didn’t notice that the scene from the Sopranos episode being parodied featured vagina onion rings.

RM: I’ll be back up to snuff soon. I’ve been busy developing a capacity for Russian vodka, which so far I neither like nor tolerate.

DL: i was wondering, too. around my sixth shot of novocaine today i went, “where is RodMe?”
“which so far I neither like nor tolerate.” I married someone like that once. Stop while you can.

Hey, what are vagina rings? Am I missing out on something?!

Alex: Mad Althouse thought the reference to “onion rings” in the Hillary video was oblique vagina symbolism, instead of a reference to the food featured in the last Sopranos episode being parodied.

You know, just because her own twat is dry, deep-fried, and crusty.

when pigs fly

trojan + phil joanou = genius, but cbs and fox won’t air it.

Fox and CBS declined to comment on why they had refused the ad, but in a written response to Trojan, Fox said that it rejected the spot because, “Contraceptive advertising must stress health-related uses rather than the prevention of pregnancy.” CBS wrote that, while it understood and appreciated the humor of the spot, “we do not find it appropriate for our network even with late-night-only restrictions.”

From the NYT:

“We always find it funny that you can use sex to sell jewelry and cars, but you can’t use sex to sell condoms,” said Carol Carrozza, vice president of marketing for Ansell Healthcare, which makes LifeStyles condoms. “When you’re marketing condoms, something even remotely suggestive gets an overly analytical eye when it’s going before networks’ review boards.”

…for The National Review if that’d just, you know, be forthright about their desire to bomb Iran. This editorial is so goddamn passive-aggressive.

Iran won’t stop so long as there is no price to its acts of war. The controversy over Lieberman’s remark shows how we aren’t prepared to make it pay one.

Yeah, and…?

cvs, studio city, 1pm today.

Man blames health drink for unwanted erection
29-year-old claims Boost Plus caused condition that required surgery

NEW YORK - A man has sued the maker of the health drink Boost Plus, claiming the vitamin-enriched beverage gave him an erection that would not subside and caused him to be hospitalized.

The lawsuit filed by Christopher Woods of New York said he bought the nutrition beverage made by the pharmaceutical company Novartis AG at a drugstore on June 5, 2004, and drank it.

Woods’ court papers say he woke up the next morning “with an erection that would not subside” and sought treatment that day for the condition, called severe priapism.

i’m not a guy, but this makes me shudder:

They say Woods, 29, underwent surgery for implantation of a Winter shunt, which moves blood from one area to another.

alright, they’re not nurses … but they could be!

“It’s fairly easy to destroy a civilized society,” noted John Updike, during the Q&A session of his Union Square reading of Terrorist.

He’d recalled watching the Twin Towers fall — “like a telescope,” he said, while mimicking the sound and motion of a collapse — from a safe distance and said that it was “the most horrible thing I’ve ever seen in my life.” (He was too young for combat in WWII.) He also said, I thought grudgingly, that “the fact that there hasn’t been another attack is to the administration’s credit.”

Updike was asked if, at this stage in the game, he paid attention to critics. Yes, he admitted, if the criticism was constructive.

But, he cautioned, “It’s suicidal to try to please everybody.”