Drug Use

Mandatory minimums are getting reconsidered, yes, but they partially only came about because Johnny St. Valentine Brown Jr. lied under oath

Posted on by Ted Bauer

This isn’t a new story, but I just came across it and it seemed fairly interesting. Mandatory minimums may be on the way out, but one of the reasons they ever emerged in the first place was because of a massive perjury… Continue Reading →

What Philip Seymour Hoffman, as Lester Bangs in Almost Famous, taught us about the world (and the true currency of being uncool)

Posted on by Ted Bauer

The death of Philip Seymour Hoffman is certainly tragic, but it shouldn’t necessarily be called shocking — he was in rehab fairly recently. Clearly this was a struggle for him, and the struggle defeated him; it’s happened to many others who excelled at their… Continue Reading →