In today’s Guardian, Jonathan Franklin pays a visit to Bolivia’s Route 36, which he describes as “world’s first cocaine bar.” Anyone who’s been heartbroken by a shit bag of watered-down drugs — any drug, that is — will appreciate the enthusiasm of backpackers and tourists who gladly drop $15 on a locally produced gram of [...]
In their rush to air exclusive photos of Flight 447′s destruction, no one in this newsroom stopped to ask the logical questions, such as: 1) How did the camera survive? and 2) Why are the photos in wide-screen format? The answers, of course, are: 1) Because the footage is from Lost. And, 2) because the [...]
Between Intervention and Locked Up Abroad (my two favorite shows), it’s a wonder anyone ever touches drugs. And yet, they do. Case in point: a British teenager was caught smuggling coke out of Bolivia. It isn’t the seemingly harsh sentence that caught my eye (49 years). It isn’t the standard-issue “I’m a slutty twat” Facebook [...]
