Radio Diatribe

Bill C-15, currently just past the first reading in the parliament, proposes, among other things, moving all amphetamines, even the types approved for treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), from Schedule III to Schedule I.

This would put drugs containing any type of amphetamine, such as the widely used Adderall, in the same category as heroin, phencyclidine (PCP), and methamphetamine.

Moving all amphetamines to Schedule I technically does not make it impossible for ADHD patients to obtain Adderall, but it would make it practically impossible for doctors to prescribe it for prolonged use outside hospital settings. It also serves no purpose in containing recreational use of methamphetamine, a very addictive subtype of amphetamine, as it is already separately classified under Schedule I. To have this kind of grave error, even in the first draft of the bill, is a complete embarassment for the Canadian government. Had it sought consultations from medical experts, the error would have been pointed out immediately. It’s another proof that the current government’s drug policy is driven by social conservative paranoia, not scientific facts.

Correction: In its original version, this post made the mistake of confusing Schedule I set by United States Drug Enforcement Administration and Schedule I set by Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) of Canada. While the term “Schedule I” is used to classify drugs considered most dangerous in both countries, Canada does not completely prohibit use of Schedule I for valid medical reasons.

Will I find it to be really lame next week? We will see.

Unfortunately, it is now removed.

HBO needs to option Alexyss K. Tylor’s book immediately and produce a series about four skanky thirty-something black women living in Atlanta.

Can you imagine it: replays of each woman’s sexual encounter interspersed with the main character’s cute, funny remarks analyzing the situation in terms of “vagina power” and “penis power”?

[via Attempt to be Hip and Gawker]

Update: CollegeHumor has posted the video.

Remember The New Republic? The (formerly) left-of-centre, Washington, D.C.-based magazine that used to be the most relevant forum for American liberal ideas in early to mid-90’s until it got totally fucked over by that motherfucker Stephen Glass in 1998? The magazine whose hiring Bareback Andy as its editor (pre-Stephen Glass debacle, of course) shot him to his current level of fame? The magazine whose current irrational support of any action that would end up fucking over Muslims in the Middle East (read “Zionist agenda”) that continues to rapidly erode the little relevance it has left after pretty much everyone stopped reading it in 1998?

Well, The New Republic is about to become even less relevant (as if that was even possible) thanks to its new owner: CanWest Global Communications Corporation. Can-fucking-West. If you didn’t know already, the Asper family, which controls CanWest, are fucking bat-shit crazy conservative Zionists. And, they like to use their media holdings to present their insane perception of the world as “reality.” Just watch Global National on the day something happens in Israel if you are not convinced.

Obviously, it is in the Aspers’ personal interests to prop up a dying Zionist rag, especially the one based out of Washington, D.C. But, this exercise in throwing shovels of cash into a bottomless well, an arrangement strikingly resemblant to the one between the Moonies and The Washington Times/UPI, is definitely not in the interest of the parties who actually own CanWest, which are not the Aspers¹. And, guess what? If you’re Canadian, every time you watch Family Guy (which is syndicated on GlobalTV), The New Republic is going to get a penny.

1. The Asper family has a majority of votes in CanWest Global despite having a minority stake in the company thanks to the company’s multi-class share system. Most of the shares owned by the Aspers belong to the class that grants multiple votes to each share while shares issued to non-Aspers have one vote each or none at all. To be fair, it’s not just CanWest that has this multi-class system. Rogers, Shaw, CHUM (before it was acquired by CTVglobemedia), and The New York Times Co. have (or, in case of CHUM, had) multi-class system, granting founding families with minority interests in the companies the majority of votes. It should however be noted that the families that control Rogers, Shaw, and NYT are not insane.

Jimmy Fallon Said to Be in NBC’s Late-Night Plans [NYT]

The worst news ever.

I want to be a Colombian drug lord. Not just any drug lord, but a Colombian one (with a proper Colombian passport and everything). I guess my next immediate priority is finding me a Colombian wife.

Oh, I love you Wonder Showzen.

Intel VP Stephen L. Smith tells the IDF attendees about the small animals he caught last weekend with his eyebrows.

Earlier today, as I was about half way through my daily compulsive tech industry web site visits (a daily frenzy driven by subclinical O.C.D.), I was hit in the face with an anorexic soccer mom exploding into an epileptic seizure kaleidoscope, courtesy of Intel.

I am left to guess it to be either an insipid rip-off of Michel Gondry’s masterpiece “Let Forever Be” or some sort of a video tribute to Satan.

Sadly, this is not the worst part of the campaign. The newly-designed product page for Intel Core 2 Duo sports a puzzle where visitors are asked to figure out which retarded mime represents which Intel product or “product” (I am talking about you Intel Viiv).

Someone’s going to hell for this.

I want to work for Maclean’s, be friends with Douglas Coupland and Bruce LaBruce, and grow a creepy moustache. Yeah, and I want to be a princess.