Archive for August, 2006

A frightening American epidemic: overmedication

by Anne Law, August 3, 2006, 8:00 am

Feeling sad? Take a Wellbutrin. Can’t get it up? Take a Viagra. Feeling gassy? You might have a disease and need some pills for that…

While the medication commercials that crop up on an increasingly regular basis are always good for a laugh, it is also disturbing to …

Ford: The leper with the most fingers?

by James Bryant, August 2, 2006, 8:00 am

I’m a Ford man but this wasn’t always the case. For years I drove Chevys. I switched in 2001 after my 1978 Chevy Silverado’s throttle linkage busted and sent me white-knuckling it down a major four-lane thoroughfare at 80 mph in …

Blog envy

by Jeff Dorsch, August 1, 2006, 8:00 am

I love Virginia Heffernan of The New York Times. I don’t actually know her. I mean, I love her work! And she is a babe, too.

Her blogs from the spring “upfronts” – the annual presentations by the leading TV networks on their fall schedules – were …