When I was growing up, Tom Brokaw always felt like my 2nd dad. :(

Honestly, while I dislike all of the faux concern and trolling that's going on because she is thin now, I do genuinely hope that this in some way is showing people that yes, there IS an unhealthy way to get thin. No, losing weight does NOT always equal getting healthier. That losing weight doesn't automatically mean…

Cigarettes are not for Poors!

I understand your feeling. At the same time, I don't know if the point is not invalid. Loving someone does not mean that their bad behavior had meaning.

My brother also had drug problems & had so many od's there's too many to count, I totally disagree with you about stupidity. Your brother may like mine have been a clever, intelligent person but at the same time he was also a stupid person, a stupid person for taking such a strong drug & thinking like most people "…

No. I'm sorry about your brother. But dying from heroin when you're a wealthy actor, and leaving three kids without a father, is stupid as shit. And don't give me that guff about respect; if less people painted these people as tragic martyrs for their art, and instead called them on the monumentally stupid act (trying…

People act as if addiction to drugs/alcohol doesn't start out with the choice to take them.

Um, if you actually read the DSM (which I have), substance abuse is placed on a different diagnostic criteria - away from organic mental illness. If you actually read the page you linked to, you will notice that nowhere on the page does the term "mental illness" actually appear. Addiction is classified as a…

As somebody with am organic mental illness, personally, you should know that many people with mental illnesses don't really like addiction being classified as much. Addiction is a physical and chemical dependency - not a mental illness. My illness didn't start when I put something foreign inside my body - it was there…

I (hope) think what people are trying to say when they call deaths of this nature "stupid" and "senseless" is that they are PREVENTABLE. Not with the system we have no. DEFINITELY not with the system we have now. But if drug addiction was decriminalized and was treated as it is in many countries around the world (as…

Thank you. "If they're really grieving, they're not on Twitter." Exactly.
I get that addiction is a disease, and for all citing their personal experiences, who's to say I, too, can't relate?
But when a privileged, white, man who has the means, resources, supportive artistic community, talent, and intelligence to get as…

exactly. my tumblr feed is all, "how is the grieving family supposed to respond to this?!" if they're really grieving, they're not on twitter....

A young woman dying from cancer is succumbing to disease. Dying because of your addiction is stupid.

Burt, I usually agree with you. But I posted this earlier in a different thread and feel it bears repeating here. ....
I'm clearly in the minority here, and I don't know Jared whatshisname outside of being Dean on "Gilmore Girls", and I'm sure his PR people tore him a new one. But he does have a point. Honestly, PSH…

And that's different from the other Belichick press conferences, how....?