Posted in Advertising, Drugs on August 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So looking up drug ad pictures for my last post, I came across this (via AdFreak):
I can’t read the small type, but the gist seems to be: “Is your wife too depressed to cook you breakfast? Pump her full of uppers, and you’ll have eggs and bacon again in no time!”
[Not that I'd [...]
Posted in Advertising, Drugs on August 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The good old days of drug advertising
Does this seem like a ridiculous waste of time to anyone else?
Federal regulators plan to study whether relaxing, upbeat images featured in TV drug ads distract consumers from warnings about the drugs’ risks.
Of course they do. That’s the point. The good news is, consumers — distracted by that [...]
Posted in Drugs, Health Morality, Nanny State, Rights and such, The Constitution on August 8, 2007 | 7 Comments »
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that terminally ill patients whose only chance of survival lies in investigational medicines should, essentially, suck it up and wait it out ’til the FDA rules that the drugs are 100 percent without risk.
That makes sense. I mean, if terminally ill patients take some drug without the FDA’s [...]
Posted in City Life, Drugs, Ohio on my Mind on July 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Cleveland Councilman Mike Polensek apparently makes a habit of writing letters to “troublemakers” in his neighborhood. The Cleveland Plain Dealer has an article up about one of those letters because a mother is calling it racist and claims the councilman is threatening to kill her son.
Winston’s mother, Tonya Lewis, said she plans to speak [...]
Posted in Drugs on July 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Giuliani says cancer patients don’t deserve to be relieved of pain because there exist some people would like to see all marijuana legalized.
Right. That’s logical.
Posted in Drugs, Kids These Days, god and such on June 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The more you pursue a higher education, the more likely you are to abandon your faith — at least that’s what conventional wisdom holds.
“Actually we’ve just been wrong about this for quite a while,” said Mark D. Regnerus, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and one of the [...]
Posted in Drugs, What the Fuck? on May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in Boston, attending the Internet & Society conference at the Berkman Center tomorrow and Friday. I was perusing the Boston free paper on the metro (which they call “the T” here and which, incidentally, totally sucks compared to the DC metro — more on that later, with photographic evidence. and probably more on the [...]
Posted in Drugs on May 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
It must be my week to quote from Forbes business magazine, I’ll just say I love netvibes and leave it at that.
In a science fiction twisted story, a professor at McGill University is attempting to pull an “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “The Giver.” Professor Karim Nader is trying erasing people’s memories. [...]
Posted in Drugs, Pop Culture on April 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I love me some Omar and McNulty. It’s no lie that I love “The Wire.” It’s one of the best shows on television, let alone one of the best shows I have ever seen. I’ll save any kind of synopsis for links. So click here if you’re unfamiliar.
This whole post began out of [...]
Posted in Drugs, Nanny State, Sex, Tobacco, What the Fuck? on April 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m just going to aggregate some of the more obnoxious, civil-liberties infringing, you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me laws passed/upheld/introduced this week:
Ocean City, Md. approved a resolution putting a moratorium on “sexually explicit stores,” including adult arcades, adult bookstores, adult video stores, “adult cabarets,” adult motels, adult movie theaters, adult theaters, escort agency’s, “seminude model studios” or sexual encounter [...]
Posted in Drugs, Libertarians on April 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Salon interview today about Ex-Republican Bob Barr, who formally joined the Libertarian National Committee as a regional representative in Dec. 2006. According to the interview, two weeks ago, Barr and several others founded a civil-liberties-protection group, the American Freedom Agenda, and last week, Barr (who apparently was once an anti-drug crusader in Congress) announced [...]
Posted in Drugs, Nanny State on March 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
a friend of mine once told me a story about the DC cops giving a dying man a ticket for jaywalking after he had been hit by a car. maybe the man was even already dead, I don’t know the specifics. Anyway, I’ve never really believed this story to be anything more than some sort [...]
Posted in Drugs on March 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My friend recently had to take an employee-sponsored drug test, and thus purchased an over-the-counter drug test from Walgreen’s to make sure she was on the up-and-up. I just thought this was funny:
The thing is designed for parents to give their children and has an extensive pamphlet to explain how to use, what to [...]
