drug scandals

Conservative Party cabinet minister Michael Gove claims he is truly sorry he took cocaine twenty years ago. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48564722 How degenerate is that? Here we have highly educated individuals whom we presume are au fait with current affairs, so ought to know...

Manna from heaven, the term that comes to mind... Also, schadenfreude. So we have the editor of Gawker, the investigative editor of the Toronto Star, and another Star reporter, all saying they have seen the video (the drug-dealing Somalians trying to sell it are holding out for six figures) it...

High-flying executive (37) seeks gainful employment. Previous post as Chief Executive, administering a £2 billion pound budget, salary £60,000 per annum. Here's the overviews of the story. Purcell: the end of the line The fall of Steven Purcell Failed politicians, disgraced politicians...

Is the fact that John McCain's wife is a thief who stole from a charity going to be a liability for his candidacy? Is the fact that he broke his marital vows and walked out on his first wife and kids for a much younger woman when she became crippled in a car accident going to be a problem? I...

Al Gore III, that is, son of the former Vice President: Wonder if he'll get as much time as Paris Hilton?

Didn't coke go out of fashion in the early 90's? Marion should get with it an start smokin' Meth and droppin "E" if he really wants to connect with his younger constituents... ;) ...and he's a tax evader to boot!

Bush has got the munchies President Bush was concerned "his mistakes as a youth" would disqualify him from running for the nation's highest office, said an old friend who secretly recorded private conversations in which Bush appears to acknowledge past drug use. "I don't want any kid doing...

In reading this story, I have considerably more respect for Bush than before. I may not LIKE him any better, but it's interesting to see how his mind works. White House - AP NEW YORK - Private conversations with George Bush secretly taped by an old friend before he was elected president...