I was a drunk.
Jail time was the best thing that ever happened to me.
I guarantee Lindsay will be staying off the sauce as long as her sentence lasts.
Sorry, as an alcoholic with nearly nine years sober, I disagree. The 90 days will give the little drunk time to dry out. Then, if she wants to get serious about treatment, it’s up to her, and she can make a clear-headed decision. AA can help her out. It’s up to her seek it out.
The jail time is for dis-obeying the court.
She got a first chance at an alcohol diversion program (rather than jail), which she failed to meet the minimum requirements. She got a second bite at the apple, and still she failed by missing 8 out of 27 meetings.
The jail time is a punishment and an incentive - she's being punished for failing to meet the terms of her probation, and she's being incentivised to meet the terms of her new probation. The magic of due process.
Incidentally, MANY states are MUCH more punitive when dealing with a person who has two DUI's within a five-year period, to say nothing of a two-week period, a la Lindsey.
The threat and imposition of jail time is often required for addicts to get treatment.
She’s not being jailed for being an alcoholic, I understand.
She’s being jailed for her DUI and multiple failures to appear.
Ratner needs help as well from a shrink.
She does not need jail time. She needs hard time in prison.
The little spoiled twit has contributed nothing to society, other than to spur some glossy mag sales to the addle-brained simpering idiots that buy them.
This is the most non-issue I can think of.
The world is going to hell at the hands of the likes of that damned obama and we're expected to give a rat's ass about this silly little drunk skank?
Give me a break!
Well then... she will move in as soon as she is out of jail. You will be her legal guardian... ratt-ner face.
LLS
Bull. The jail time should be a wonderful deterrent and a real consequence for a woman who seems to be very unfamiliar with the idea of consequences of one’s actions.
Wrong. This time she needs something punitive and THEN treatment. She’s been given plenty of chances to clean up her act. Plus, she’s an idiot.
No, Lindsay Lohan needs JAIL, then treatment. She needs to learn that behavior has consequences.
bringing Lindsey back down to the real world with a little bar time of the steel kind is the best thing that could happen to her
Lohan needs a good, swift kick in the @ss every time she does something stupid.
Pain is a very good motivator to learn a new behavior.
Treatment implies illness.
Cancer needs treatment. Heart attacks need treatment.
Alcohol abuse needs punishment.
I don’t object to medical treatment for the physical symptoms, i.e., liver disease or whatever.
If it's a disease, it's self-inflicted and self-cured.
I bet anyone with a real disease like muscular dystrophy or insulin-dependent diabetes WISHES that all he or she had to do to make the symptoms evaporate, was resist the temptation to indulge in a bad habit.
Those researchers who insist on calling it a "disease" know there's a lot of money in all kinds of places at stake by doing so. Referring to it as a mere "allergy" would eliminate a zillion-dollar private and government industry.
But here's the deal: if you eat strawberries and break out in a rash, count on two things:
1. You're allergic to strawberries.
2. You're an idiot to go on eating strawberries. Refrain from eating strawberries, and you'll be fine.
Like my grandfather before me, and like countless alcoholics I have known personally over the decades, if I drink booze, I break out in handcuffs, trouble, and arrests. Reagan said it: we conservatives have simple solutions to complex problems -- not EASY solutions, but simple solutions. There is a very SIMPLE SOLUTION, a very SIMPLE CURE, for alcoholics:
STOP DRINKING.
All the counseling in the world isn't going to help an alcoholic. The alcoholic helps him or herself by making a simple decision -- not an easy one, but a simple one -- to STOP DRINKING.
23 years ago, after waking up in jail one too many times without knowing how I got there, after having one too many stitches for injuries I have no idea how I received, I finally figured out I had a decision to make: keep on drinking and kill myself and hurt the people I loved most, or stop drinking and live.
Curtain #1 or Curtain #2? Hmmmmm ...
Life isn't fair and nobody -- NOBODY -- said it was. Some of us can't handle our booze and the responsibility for dealing with it lies with the individual who has the problem, NOT the rest of the world, not counselors, not doctors.
I understand that Bill Clinton has offered to "counsel her"
Ooh wheee!
Who’s sick and tired reading about this rich spoiled brat? Raise your hands.