RIP Amy Winehouse

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Loyola-Marymount was leading in a WCC Tournament game yesterday, 25-13, when the rest of the game had to be postponed.
The squad still hopes to make some noise in the NCAA Tournament, however.

 

These are fun...

DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA (AP) - It was a banner day for Dale Earnhardt, Sr., as his Dale Earnhardt, Inc. cars of Michael Waltrip and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. claimed a one-two finish at the 2001 Daytona 500. Earnhardt, Sr. finished 12th.

 

I'd have to argue that one big difference between you and Winehouse is the fact that Winehouse's mistakes ended up taking HER life. Your mistake could potentially have taken yours and the lives of someone's son, someone's daughter, someone's mother, someone's father.

I wouldn't want to be so callous as to say someone had it coming in a situation like Winehouse's. Considering the way she lived her life, it was little surprise that she was dead at 27. That doesn't preclude me from feeling bad about her loss. There is a difference.

As far as depression vs. addition is concerned, no one asks to be depressed. No one asks to feel so low as to have to call a suicide hotline. No one asks to feel so bad that they'd hide a gun underneath their pillow in an effort to muffle the sound when they blow their brains out. No one asks to feel so down that they see no way out of their misery.

As far as addiction is concerned, we can act all high and mighty and say "oh we'd never do that." But we haven't lived someone else's life or faced someone else's circumstances. Until we face the exact same situation someone else does and we are armed with exactly the same tools at our disposal that someone else had, we have no right to pass judgment.

 

It's a death. Report it and move on. Not enshrine a drug addict with how they were a role model even in death.

 

Thanks for making me feel better about it. Hadn't thought of any of that.

 

HUNTINGTON, W.Va (AP) Following Saturday's 17-14 loss at East Carolina University the Marshall University football season has been cancelled and the program has been ceased.
Indefinitely.

 

So you don't think that Len Bias, for example, served as a "role model" in the sense that he was a cautionary tale for people about the immediate dangers of drug use?

 

Headline on Drudge says she died from withdrawal.

Would seem to take the steam out of the argument that she wasn't trying to help herself.

 

It's her family's opinion, not a medical opinion.

And, they might be just putting their own spin on it.

 

If it's the Sun, I guess we can assume they were able to monitor her phone calls to her friends and family during her withdrawal period...

 

If abstinence can kill you, I worry about Nighthawk.

 

OK. You are funnier than me.