So let me get this straight, the mom is using an illegal substance and trying to take the moral high ground? Gee, I can't imagine why the kid isn't buying it! I will admit that the school system pumps this "drugs are bad" crap a little too much at kids (being of the generation that had the most anti-drug messages thrown at them then any previous generation before it, I know what that's like) but clearly the pot is getting in the way of a real relationship with her son.

I think it is rather telling that she values her friend's opinion more then her own sons. This, as much as the pot, says a lot about where he really stands in her life. I grew up with a mother who married a man who treated me and my sister like crap while growing up. My mother recently started coming to her senses about what kind of person he really was and even then it was only because he started treating her a fraction of the way he treated us. But even today I still don't understand why she turned a blind eye to what was going on all those years. My respect for her is severly diminished, and will probably never fully come back.

If this woman does not get help, she will have a son that will spend the rest of his life resenting her for rejecting him and putting a plant above him on her list of priorities. If she does not change, then her son should turn her into the cops and let her reap the consquences of her actions. I'm sure her namby pamby husband will not stand in the way since he hasn't done anything so far!

I hope this young man can start a brand new life and learn to move on from the pain his mother caused him. He deserves better then he is getting right now.

Republicans definetly have a conundrum on their hands. On the one hand, Bush is still very popular among the GOP base, on the other, he has clearly fallen out of favor with the rest of the voting public (read: "swing" voters). They are in a no-win situation. Though, and I'm not just saying this as a democrat, perhaps this is what they deserve. They honestly bought into the "permanent republican majority" crap that Karl Rove was selling after 9/11 and as a result, burned several bridges by saying you can't support the troops without supporting the president. Now they are trying to do the exact same thing the democrats tried to do in 2004.

The republicans need an Iraq strategy, ANY Iraq strategy, if they are to have any chance in 2008. Even after the elections last year, the public still sees Iraq as Bush's problem; so far, the democrats have gotten off scott free (though perhaps they shouldn't). That makes it the republicans problem too.

First of all, Israel isn't our problem, it is not our job to keep them from being nuked. Second of all, none of the war's suppporters can give a good reason why nothing in this war has gone the way we were told it would. This isn't just "poor planning", this is a pathology of niave thinking. Seeing the world as "good" and "evil" does nothing to address the real reasons why people over there hate us. If anything, it makes the situation worse. Unless all those who wanted this war so badly have a plan to win that doesn't label everyone who disagrees with us "evil", and addresses their grievances, then there is no way to win.

I don't think manless reproduction is going to get us out of the picture that easily, for one thing, we wouldn't go down with out a fight. Another reason is that in order for this kind of paranoia to work, it would imply that all women would just become lesbians after they realized they didn't need men anymore. No matter what James Dobson and his brood may tell you, that's not going to happen.

I must confess, I've never seen porn where the guy blows his load into a cup and the woman (women?) drinks it. I've seen food porn, (well, not actually watched it but I know of it) where the guy ejaculates on a sandwhich or something and then the woman eats it. I don't really think that would do it for me, though.

Last year, the conservatives got their white sheets in a bunch over "Brokeback Mountain", a movie that showed gays the way they would like them to be shown, rejects of society treated like perverts by the outside world and one of them was killed for his "lifestyle choice". Here is a movie dealing directly with the issue of gay marraige (featuring Adam Sandler, a registered republican, if I'm not mistaken) and I haven't heard any outrage yet from any of the have-nothing-better-to-do-then-obsess-on-other-people's-sex-lives crowd.

I don't know if that is considered progress or if they just don't think the movie will do very well, but it does seem rather odd they wouldn't throw at least one protest outside the premier.

I wonder if this is part of the "cultural sea" that Mitt Romney wants to protect our children from! LOL!