Our Addiction to Fake Outrage
In a country where about half the population has smoked pot, we're expected to be ragingly angry that Phelps went to a party and hit his friend's bong. What a sad joke on so many levels.
In a country where about half the population has smoked pot, we're expected to be ragingly angry that Phelps went to a party and hit his friend's bong. What a sad joke on so many levels.
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 03.13.2009 | Business
There is a chance, and it's a window that will last as long as Grapes of Wrath 2.0, to legalize marijuana in the name of industry and creating jobs.
Matt Palevsky | Posted 03.13.2009 | Entertainment
The photo of fourteen time Olympic gold medalist, Michael Phelps, smoking marijuana from a glass bong has made its way onto prime time television and ...
Keli Goff | Posted 03.12.2009 | Entertainment
Phelps's DUI arrest was a non-issue for the corporations who clamored to have his name and likeness all over their products. Now those same sponsors suddenly have some standards.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 03.11.2009 | Entertainment
This firing is political. Kellogg is choosing sides with the minority of the country that cares about so-called moral improprieties like this. As a business, is that the side it wants to be on?
Jason Flom | Posted 03.10.2009 | Politics
Michael Phelps is still a hero to America and his career should not go up in smoke because of a single mistake.
Ethan Nadelmann | Posted 03.09.2009 | Entertainment
Tens of millions of Americans think that the public condemnation of Phelps is a farce. we're sick and tired of the public outings, and forced apologies and recantations, which perpetuate this shameless hypocrisy.
Norm Stamper | Posted 03.09.2009 | Entertainment
I'd be willing to bet your pension, Sheriff, that every police officer in the country knows you have no legal mandate to arrest Michael Phelps.
Ross Hyzer | Posted 03.09.2009 | Comedy
We as a society need to mete out toothsome justice to the reprobate Michael Phelps. Maybe a supermax prison on the bottom of the ocean would be able to contain his heinous crimes?
Lee Stranahan | Posted 03.08.2009 | Comedy
Kellogg's has decided to end their relationship with Phelps after a photo of him surfaced doing exactly what most Kellogg's customers do right before enjoying a bowl of Rice Krispies with an Eggo on top.
Keith Thomson | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green
According to a 2002 Time/CNN poll, 47% of Americans have smoked marijuana. Here's a list of famous users and advocates of the plant.
Jason Whitlock | Posted 03.08.2009 | Entertainment
America gives its marketable, talented and wealthy weed-smokers the Santonio Holmes treatment. We forgive and quickly forget.
Sean Carman | Posted 03.08.2009 | Comedy
If there's any justice, the Olympic committee will give Phelps another gold medal. Forget all those athletes on performance-enhancing drugs. Phelps won 8 golds on one of the most performance-diminishing drugs known to man.
The Sportsman's Daily | Posted 03.07.2009 | Comedy
"What are you looking at?" Johnson demanded of a young female reporter seated in the middle of the third row. "Why are you looking at me like that?? Stop looking at me like that!!!"
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
Imagine how the economy would grind to (even more of!) a halt if we tried to arrest and incarcerate all of the people who had ever smoked pot.
Best Week Ever | Michelle Collins | Posted 03.05.2009 | Comedy
Photos of Olympic wunderkind Michael Phelps have surfaced featuring the gold medal swimmer smoking the illegal drug "marijuana" through a device known...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 02.02.2009 | Comedy
"The Cardinals really tore it up last night," said Mr. Phelps, who said he saw almost the entire game until he got "a wicked attack of the munchies" late in the fourth quarter.
Nick Graham | Posted 09.22.2009 | Home
***UPDATED February 5th, 10:20PM*** Michael Phelps was suspended from competition for three months by USA Swimming in the wake of the photo that show...
David Sirota | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics