Monday, November 19, 2007


Boxer Mike Tyson was just sentenced to one day in jail and three years probation for possessing cocaine. Police saw him wiping cocaine off the dashboard of his car and he admitted that he likes doing coke whenever he can but really enjoys smoking it in Marlborough cigarettes (who doesn’t?). He’s also on Zoloft and smoked marijuana earlier the day he was caught with cocaine.
My favourite part of that story is the Zoloft. There are many reasons why it’s easy to like Mike Tyson; there’s the fact that he’s fundamentally a rage filled bully asshole who found a way to legitimize his violent outbursts through showbiz, the fact that he is a convicted rapist, the fact that all these things are always just hanging there in his being while he does cocaine in between keeping his mental health in the balance with doses of Zoloft. How can you not like him or at least be warmed by the thought of being near him? This story is calming for me to read.

Furthermore, it’s great that he only got 24 hours in jail and it seems reasonable that that’ll pretty much solve the problem for him. Judging by the amount of chemicals he needs to shovel into his body on a daily basis it seems like his problems were pretty much solved anyway. From this, it really seems like Mike Tyson missed his calling as a child care worker. Why he and Britney should live together. They would help each other survive. [source]

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