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A fair and balanced compendium of spontaneous exclamations and excited utterances, with 22 entries on the front page. And, now, Home of the YATSASS™ Reports Yet Another True Story About Stupid Studies: • Breathing Bus Exhaust is Stressful • Depressed People May Take Drugs To Feel Better • Smart healthy people choose foods more wisely than stupid drunks • Stressed Out Moms Think Their Babies Are Annoying • People Are Groggy When They Wake Up • Airport Screeners Probably Can't Stop Spread of SARS & Flu • Study on Studies Yields Disappointment! • Lengthy Study with No Findings! A perfect YATSASS! • Making Fun Of Fat Kids Depresses Them • Drinking Highly Sugared Beverages Can Make You Fat! • Americans Prefer Safe & Effective Drugs to Unproven and Dangerous Ones • Study Shows Poor & Homeless Drink More Malt Liquor • Study on People in Studies Yields Predictable Answers, But Also Raises New Questions • Women Don't Like Getting Up to Feed the Newborn While Their Husbands Sleep Like Babies • Sperm Levels Drop With Frequent Ejaculation • People Who Don't Screw Around Get Less Clap • Swimming Can Cause Fluid Build-Up in Lungs • People Who Eat A Proper Diet are Healthier and Thinner • People who don't wet their pants feel better than people who do • Maybe Left Handed Winter Babies have More Brain Cancer, Maybe Not... • People who had nose jobs and people who didn't both like the same kind of noses • People pass more gas when they are active • Kids who spend too much time reading will get headaches • People who get drunk think others are more attractive than they do when they're sober In the old days, My thoughts were more coherent, and I could string together whole sequences of actual paragraphs! Those essays can be found here for those so interested.
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Sunday, September 14, 2003 Posted 10:28 AM
  Goodbye Johns We lost two beloved Johns this week: Johnny Cash and John Ritter. The man in black clothing had long ago acknowledged his problems with the white powder, and may have even overcome his addictions. Although penned by another, younger addict, Johnny Cash's recent cross generational hit, Hurt, spoke boldly and wisely to the pain of addiction, and his own composition (with Kris Kristofferson,) the 1970 recording of Sunday Mornin', Comin' Down was light years ahead of the "Recovery Gang" of the nineties. Cash struggled openly with drugs through much of his life, rehabbing at the Betty Ford Center as recently as the mid-Eighties.
Way back in the stoneage, back when MTV showed music and the Comedy Channel showed comedy, I saw a comedy special where the three men performed together. I had never before, and have not since, seen anything as funny. John Ritter won my undying respect that day, despite his alleged drug problems. Maybe no one else remembers, but I seem to recall that whenever you read about a "shindig," "happening," or other "late night escapade" at places like the Chateau Marmont (home of John Belushi's Death), John Ritter's name appeared on the guest list. Robin Williams, one of the last people to ever see John Belushi alive, and who has admitted to snorting more than one furnished mansion's worth of cocaine, counted Ritter among his buddies during the best of/worst of times. When I heard that John Ritter had died I was surprised and I was saddened. When I heard what it was that killed him, I was not at all surprised; I had heard of the condition and believed that I knew one of its major causes, viz: Entrez-PubMed: "Among the 38 cases of acute aortic dissection, 14 (37%) were related to cocaine use. Crack cocaine was smoked in 13 cases and powder cocaine was snorted in 1 case. The mean interval between cocaine use and the onset of symptoms was 12 hours (range, 0 to 24)" © 2002-2008 Rob Falk, All Rights Reserved. All Wrongs Denied. Your mileage won't vary; it will be less. | Subscribe to Rants!
  
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