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...sitcom about the racial-harmony message of the black-and-white cookie. When Richards (Seinfeld's Kramer) called African-American hecklers in a comedy club "niggers" and joked about lynching them, it capped a season of celebrity lunacy. Mel Gibson had his anti-Jewish tirade during a drunk-driving arrest; actor Isaiah Washington reportedly called a fellow Grey's Anatomy cast member a "faggot" during an argument on set. News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, meanwhile, apologized last week not for bigotry per se but for cynically ripping off the race-and-gender scab of the O.J. Simpson trial by offering...
...Boston-area tennis academy founded by his late father. Down the road is a drug-rehab center inhabited by an assortment of seedy and desperate characters, notably one Don Gately, a cheerful Demerol addict "with a massive and almost perfectly square head he used to amuse his friends when drunk by letting them open and close elevator doors on." Then there's a film clip so entertaining you die if you watch it, and a cell of wheelchair-bound Québécois terrorists ... all right, maybe it's not possible...
...MADD anti-drunk-driving campaign doesn’t slow down for facts: En route to an accident-free utopia, who cares if our civil rights are run over. Many states already penalize drivers arrested for—not convicted of—drunk driving by revoking their license, and Los Angeles makes a tidy profit by seizing their cars as well. Washington, meanwhile, tells juries in DUI cases to “assume the truth of the prosecution’s...evidence” and make their decision “in a light most favorable to the prosecution...
When it comes to drunk driving, these laws place the burden of proof on the defendant: Drunk until proven innocent indeed. Mandatory universal ignition interlocks are merely another step down the slippery slope of imposing ever more obtrusive punishments on people who have not been convicted of a crime. You don’t have to be a Montana libertarian—always on the lookout for the U.N.’s Blackhawk helicopters—to see this as another step toward an Orwellian world where the government has a lock-iron grip on individual actions...
Ultimately, the MADD goal of eliminating all drunk driving will require preventing any drinking whatsoever prior to driving; if no one can drink one beer, no one can drink 12. Progressive Puritanism—the endeavor to eliminate all risky behaviors—might eventually succeed in creating a safe, well-organized society, but we’ll have to forget about having that innocent glass of wine at a restaurant...