This is something I’ve had sitting in my drafts I’m folder for who knows how long, but maybe now’s the time to use it as a prompt.
Do you ever feel conflicted when someone you admire comes under controversy?
I’ve been trying to think about this one since I re-read it earlier this morning.
I think, probably, many of the early ones were surrounding celebs getting busted for drugs. I seem to have memories of a deejay quipping about David Lee Roth getting busted with some product out of Panama.
Hmmm….? Wonder what that was?
Growing up during the Nancy Reagan All-drugs-are-bad-mmmkay? era definitely affected my thinking about those sorts of things.
How could that baseball pitcher have been effective when he was doing so much Coke?
See what happened to Len Bias? He did die after smoking crack, and, you know, that often happens the first time you smoke it.
If you have unprotected sex, it’s less about whether young girl pregnant, you will catch teh AIDS, and DIE.
I miss Magic Johnson. Such a tragedy.
Oh. Wait.
How did Bill Clinton not catch anything?
I wonder if that sort of thinking partially explains some of the Wear a damn mask rhetoric.
If you don’t wear a mask, you will catch COVID, and die.
If you had extra-marital sex without a condom in the 80s, or 90s, you would catch AIDS and die.
Yeah, about that….
I was really concerned, even, when Coach [READACTED{ came in to health class, and told us the he was tired of seeing Americans puking all over downtown Heidelberg, so he was going to teach us how to drink (and not get obliterated).
Happy birthday, too, to my brother. I think he would have been too young to deal with the DARE and AIDS-era sex ed.
News. I’ve been kind of tracking this after I saw it somewhere else early this morning.
I am very upset that Rep. CIA is going back to the House. You would think the true-blue leftists might have a moment’s pause about a Senate seat likely being stolen from a successful black guy. *crickets*
Yeah. He’s playing for the wrong team.
All that said, the full stupid seems to have stopped.
Why come the “FOF’s” support growing among minorities? That’s just, well, unpossible!!1! (And, again, I voted for Dr. Jorgensen….)
How did Susan Collins win so big when she was totally supposed to lose? They spent a ton of money in South Carolina, and Lady G still won?
But, at least, it doesn’t look like any of the stupid stuff will happen.
So I can relax a bit.
Yeah, I know, good luck with that.