Summer is upon us! But you're probably wondering: Who offers free wifi and copious air conditioning? What's the most edifying place I could park the kids? Where could I discreetly conduct some light criminal activity? The answer, of course, is your public library. » 6/12/14 12:03pm 6/12/14 12:03pm

As Breaking Bad's popularity taught the nation about the meth business, it seems the drug itself has crept into America's real suburban PTA meetings. » 12/20/13 3:15pm 12/20/13 3:15pm

Police in Southern California have reported at least two cases of children testing positive for methamphetamine after ingesting the Halloween treats they worked so hard to collect. In the world's worst double whammy, the police had to confiscate a child's entire candy stash for meth testing. Which is what I… » 11/06/13 6:09pm 11/06/13 6:09pm

Donna J. Nelson is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Oklahoma with a CV that's over 31-pages long. One of the most recent entries? Science advisor to AMC's hit show about a chemistry teacher gone nutso, Breaking Bad. » 8/22/13 10:00am 8/22/13 10:00am

Sign of the times: Now you must be 18 years or older to buy nail polish remover. » 8/12/13 6:00pm 8/12/13 6:00pm

People are a little crazy about Diet Coke, right? Like more crazy about it than anyone should ever be about a beverage that they don't have to go to rehab for? Granted I've never been a big soda drinker so I do not speak as a representative of the Diet Coke community. I speak as someone who can't figure out why it's… » 5/29/13 11:00am 5/29/13 11:00am

As if meth wasn't heinous enough by itself, a new study is showing that the drug has lasting effects on children whose mothers use it during pregnancy. While this certainly doesn't come as a surprise—given how much meth messes up adult brains—it's nevertheless disturbing. Earlier research found that meth babies, like… » 3/20/12 10:40am 3/20/12 10:40am

A woman's attempt to turn her local Wal-Mart into a makeshift meth lab ran afoul of the law after spending six hours unsuccessfully trying to concoct crystal meth in the store. This is the best store related illicit multitasking since Horne's Department Store recruited perfume counter employees for prostitution work… » 12/09/11 5:50pm 12/09/11 5:50pm

Elizabeth Gilbert's onetime love-nest is apparently turning into a den of iniquity: Bali has seen a sharp increase in meth-smuggling arrests, including that of a woman who was hiding the drug in her intestines. Locals apparently call the drug shabu-shabu, which raises the possibility that this is all a… » 9/16/11 8:30pm 9/16/11 8:30pm

In a sort of conflation of reality television concepts, last night's episode of Intervention may have provided a peek into what the future could hold for some of those career kiddie pageant contestants we see on Toddlers & Tiaras. Tiffany began competing in pageants when she was 9 months old, and continued to do so… » 3/15/11 11:30am 3/15/11 11:30am

A midwestern mother received a vacuum cleaner for Christmas, along with a surprise gift of $280K worth of drugs someone had stashed inside. First Clay Matthews's confusing roided-up-Fabio-joins-a-crappy-metal-band hairdo, and now this? Strange things are afoot in Green Bay. » 1/16/11 10:55am 1/16/11 10:55am

• Chelsea Clinton's wedding is the single most important thing to happen to Rhinebeck since Henry Hudson sailed up river. But who is coming to the party? The Daily Beast has the answers:
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On last night's episode, Rob-a 35-year-old meth-addicted alcoholic-never gave up his dream of becoming a rock star, even though he never really did anything to achieve it and, according to his family, he kinda sucks at music. » 12/22/09 11:00am 12/22/09 11:00am

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has eliminated all state funding for domestic violence shelters. This has come as a shock for many shelters; while they had expected a budget cut of 20%, they had no idea it would be so drastic. » 7/31/09 5:40pm 7/31/09 5:40pm

Hey, remember when everyone was calling Wasilla "Alaska's Meth Capital"? Well it sounds like one of its most famous inhabitants, Levi Johnston's mother, Sherry, has been tangled up in that Meth-y web. » 12/19/08 10:20am 12/19/08 10:20am

Yikes. Actor Ryan O'Neal and his son Redmond (whose mother is Farrah Fawcett) were detained » 9/17/08 1:20pm 9/17/08 1:20pm

Pussycat Doll takes shilling to high extreme, sings song for Caress body wash. • An Indian man beheaded a woman he believed was a witch. • 18-year-old girl genius makes the natural transition into academia. • "Whether or not we're in a recession, it doesn't matter. That day is the most important day of your life and a… » 4/21/08 5:20pm 4/21/08 5:20pm

• Fabulous CNN reporter Richard Quest (my pretend British boyfriend), was picked up early this morning in Central Park and charged with possessing meth. Oh, Richard. You already overcame the hazards of British dentistry once, why would you risk your teeth again? [NY Times]
  
• In what is rapidly becoming a roll call of…
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• Harry Potter! Yup, we pre-ordered our copy of the last-ever Harry Potter book. And we get to pick it up at 12:01 am tonight. We're super nervous about what's going to happen, too. We think that Snape isn't evil though. But we have a sneaking suspicion Harry is going to die. And we will be reading it all weekend to…
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