Posts Tagged ‘addiction’

The Kentucky Poverty Task Force

September 22nd, 2009 | 2 Comments

I read a lot.  I work in social services.  I also live in the poorest Congressional District in the United States which is in one of the poorest states in the nation.  So, needless to say, I’ve seen poverty and deal with it rather regularly.  So, I took particular interest when I received this newsletter: [...]

Just legalize drugs and all the problems go away

March 31st, 2009 | No Comments

Here we go again.  Jack Cafferty writes for CNN: If drugs were legalized, we could empty out a lot of our prison cells. People will use this stuff whether it’s legal or not. Just like they do booze. And you could make the argument that in some cases alcohol is just as dangerous as some [...]

New York wants to tax high energy drinks

December 17th, 2008 | No Comments

Well, in all fairness, they want to tax pretty much everything.  However, I’m gonna pick on this one issue right now.  To be able to increase the state budget, Gov. Paterson ( he’s a Democrat ), wants to increase taxes on a lot of things that have gone pretty much untaxed in the past.  However, [...]

Gambling can be a problem

March 10th, 2008 | 5 Comments

I read this post on Independent Sources and loved it so much I thought I’d run with it here.  Namely: 37-year old Arelia Margarita Taveras is an attorney with a serious ethics problem. She also has a gambling problem and lost her law practice, her apartment and her parents’ home, and she owes the IRS [...]

The Magazine formerly known as Rolling Stone

October 27th, 2006 | No Comments

You wanna know how bad things must be getting at Rolling Stone? I cancelled our free subscription. It’s really sad, but they really do suck any more. Following the decline of Rolling Stone over the adult period of my life is like watching an addict grow old. You sense a certain amount of desperation, hallucinations, [...]

The war on drugs – Shawn Bentler

October 16th, 2006 | 8 Comments

"The War on drugs" has taken a lot of flack from the liberal left of late. While most of them are more than happy to prosecute the hell out of anyone that smokes tobacco, the efforts to combat the hardest drugs has been met with a lot of resistance of late.  A lot of people [...]