A grateful nation thanks Charlie Sheen, By Mark Morford

[madokie]

It is a time of great reckoning. A time when an anxious, troubled nation huddles in tight clusters of fear and uncertainty, shot through with far too much war, economic grief, Tea Party idiocy, iffy cell phone reception and low-level karmic doom.

But wait! Just when all seems lost ... look! Yonder! Could it be? It is! A dazzling beacon winks out from the savage darkness. We are saved! Let us now wheel in the hookers and Veuve Clicquot and large bazookas full of cocaine! God bless America.

Behold, he hath risen. Every generation, every year, every gaseous cultural hiccup, a new god/demon/pariah emerges upon whom we can project all our fantasies and neurosis, fears and judgments, outermost Tweets and innermost grunts. Said humanoid must be an attention slut of great self-import who effortlessly flips between conquering hero and ravaged victim, depending on our collective whim. Last year? Tiger Woods, with a Mel Gibson/Lindsay Lohan chaser.

So far, 2011 is turning out to be Charlie Sheen's year, though it's still far too early to call it, and Miley Cyrus appears to be a single Ketamine porn shoot away from total cataclysm, who the hell knows what's happening to Lindsay and doesn't Adam Sandler appear to be on the knife edge of, well, something sadistic and chemically terminal? 'Tis quite the most tremendous thing about American celeb-death fetishism: No one has the slightest clue who might be next. Awesome. ...

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[joeunderdog]

1. Charlie has an unfortunate case of late onset Bipolar, Manic Type.

He will crash eventually and get Depressed and that is the only way he might entertain the idea of getting onto the meds that can restore any kind of order in his life. Being stoned worked for a while, but he's having trouble dealing with what's underneath.

[snagglepuss]

2. Bkmrkd. Utterly hysterical. Mucho thanks for postiing, I really needed a

gut busting laugh.


:rofl:

[madokie]

3. My pleasure

:hatsoff: