Diversion 2.0
A British official was removed for Estimating Drug Harms, a "controversial" (read: inconveniently accurate) study on the top 20 most harmful substances. I have a strong hunch that our most prescribed/profitable FDA-approved drugs would show up left-of-center on this graph.

Rearview Mirror
I hated studying history in high school. It was too tedious and too time-consuming, relative to the number of hours I felt I needed to teach myself the King Diamond discography on the drums. (Damn you and your infernal triplet fills, Mikkey Dee!) In college, taking a number of constitutional law classes forced me to warm up a bit to history class, though full disclosure dictates that I mention it

That Explains "Bangkok Dangerous"
No wonder Nicolas Cage has been doing every piece of crap to come across his agent's desk: he's broke. Cage went on Anderson Cooper 360 (because, why not?) to talk about his financial troubles- to the tune of $6.7M in back taxes- which he chalked up to his scheming and untrustworthy business manager. He's putting homes in Vegas and New Orleans on the auction block, even going so far as to sell

The Devil You Know
You gotta feel sorry for organized religion. Having to continually foist centuries-old screeds onto modern audiences, tirelessly attempting to convince them that a belief system developed to keep primitives in line could still have any relevance in contemporary culture. As I come from generations of Irish Catholics, my frequent tirades on religion are filtered through that particular prism, but

Check Steve Buscemi's House
Watching Young Frankenstein for the umpteenth time over the Halloween weekend, I was reminded of the forgotten genius of the late Marty Feldman. I remember seeing the brilliantly adolescent and largely overlooked In God We Trust (which teamed Feldman with the perpetually overrated Andy Kaufman) when I was 12, when a phrase as simple as "haul thy ass aboard" could send me into paroxysms of