Happy Birthday Leo!!

Happy Birthday Leo!

No snow yet, just a lot of rain. So bring a really good umbrella, layers, and a warm jacket in case it does snow. If it rains, it'll be a wet cold and really windy. We'll be bussing and walking around O-town, so be prepared!

AD, I think that might kill me right now.

CinO, in a post well-titled Lock up your bleached-blond, fake-tanned, A&F-wearing daughters (and featuring the popular 'banana hammock' shot of RBS) posts this video which reminds us of his hotdoggitude:

This information will only be useful for about 2 hours, but the west end toysRus has 3 Wii's on the shelf right now. If you get this in time, want one, have the money and hurry over, you might just get one.

Well, I'm just glad that the first picture on a Google image search for the word "Schremp" isn't the official publicity photo.

well, i guess, if you're going to tattoo your own initials on your skin, you might as well go big or go home, eh?

wow...

Edo, I believe this is his new publicity photo:

The hotdog cometh.

heroid versus alcohol heroin wins?

In all seriousness, the point of the op-ed, and the study on which it is based, is worth considering. Given an equal legal footing and supply constraints being removed, which would have a worse impact, heroin or alcohol?

The knee-jerk reaction (and I'd toss my own knee into this category) is to say heroin would be worse. I mean, it's hugely addictive, and... and what? As the author of the study says, "if you don't overdose - which is also a problem - the two biggest physical effects of heroin use are sleepiness and constipation. That's it."

The requisite disclaimer for this discussion is that heroin is not a safe substance, nor is anyone suggesting that it is. But it's worth considering that what most differentiates heroin's impact on society from alcohols is supply and demand (economically) and supply and demand (with respect to the character of the demanders and the suppliers.) So why can't we try to change that paradigm?

I've described my feelings on the present state of 'recreational' drugs in this country before; the current situation -- in which the worst of us preys on the most desperate of us -- is unpalatable. That said, I'm not an advocate of legalization of drugs like heroin, but removing organized crime from that equation, I think, is something we ought to consider.

We should also realize that the drugs that are most widely used and available are not necessarily the ones that are most benign. One needs only attend an AA meeting to learn that for oneself.