Why I love NPR affiliates:

You can catch a mid-afternoon show from Public Radio International with an academic look at the effect of the lousy dollar on the international cocaine market. This is sexy economics!
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Valerie Plame for head of the CIA!
-- eh_notsomuch was playing "Fantasy Democratic Cabinet" on her commute home the other day. Plame leads her draft picks, which include John Edwards for Attorney General and Joe Biden for Secretary of State.Congratulations, Dina Lohan. Now you just need to start pumping Agrippina full of catnip and making him work 12 hour ( Read more... )

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The thing is, you get this intense fear right when you're actually taking it. You don't want to know, but you have to know, and it's almost paralyzing... because all you can think is "THERE'S A BABY IN ME THERE'S A BABY IN ME THERE'S A BABY IN ME" and your heart's all racing and it's very scary and death is imminent... And then when you see the ( Read more... )

With the release of last week's Mitchell Report, steroids and baseball have been the all the buzz on NPR.

What I want to know is this: If a player (in any sport) declares that he or she didn't "knowingly" take performance-enhancing substances, then who was in the know, and why isn't that person being charged with poisoning ( Read more... )

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Executed man's last request honored -- pizza for homeless(CNN) -- Hundreds of homeless people in Nashville, Tennessee, ate well Wednesday evening -- all in the name of a man who the state put to death just hours earlier ( Read more... )

I really can't top scarredbyitall's pure joy and excitement at all things true crime and drug related. I'll let her own words introduce these videos:

I found a new love.

It is meth.

Okay, that is misleading. It is not meth as in shooting it, smoking it, and tearing my skin off with my own fingernails meth---it is meth as in watching these strangely addictive ( Read more... )