Wednesday, July 16, 2008

I went to Gitmo and they took away my stash


The first video of a prisoner (16-year-old Omar Khadr) being questioned at Guantanamo Bay was released yesterday; and along with it came the requisite “he’s a terrorist, he can rot in hell” and “he’s just a boy, he didn’t know what he was doing” mumbo jumbo. But in the midst of this media ruckus appeared a news story of REAL SUBSTANCE:

Barenaked Ladies Singer Steven Page Arrested On Drug Charges

You’ve read correctly – a member of the entertainment industry has been caught with an illegal substance. This is worse than the time that Snoop Dogg was caught at Bob Hope airport with handguns and a huge bag of weed. Or the time that Nicole Richie got hopped up on Vicodin and drove the wrong way on the freeway. Or that time when Aerosmith was on heroin…for a decade. Or the time when David Crosby was arrested for heroin, pot, cocaine and codeine possession…while he was on bail awaiting another cocaine charge. Or that time when Keith Richards, Charlie Sheen, Robert Downey Jr., Whitney Houston, Lindsay Lohan, Tupac, David Lee Roth, Jerry Garcia, Macauley Culkin, Neil Diamond, Chuck Berry…

1 comments :

  1. Jim said...

    That's what I've been saying all along- why is it such a surprise to see a musician taking drugs? Is it just him?

    It's such a shame that this happened. I think Steven Page is a great guy that just got caught up in bad behavior. Besides, he wrote some of my favorite Barenaked Ladies songs.

    I hope everything works out okay and they can go record their new album soon!

    ~Jim

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