[BritExPatInFla]

Mel Gibson Seeks Rehab: Actor Enters Unnamed Treatment Center

Oh, phew, that makes it all better, case dismissed. Friggin' drunk drivers are scum and deserve much harsher punishments than are usually meted out. don't give me any of this poor Mel is a recovering alcoholic and just slipped up....He's a drunk driver and could have killed anyone unfortunate enough to be in his way. The anti-semetism and sexist crap he spewed simply clouds the real issu in this whole affair, HE DROVE DRUNK.

[soccermom]

Bush and Cheney have both driven drunk. People screw up. It happens. Bush, to his credit, didn't behave arrogantly when he was stopped. But, then again, he was just the unknown son of a Senator (or maybe even congressman?) at the time. The standards were different in the seventies. Gibson should pay whatever consequences are standard for such an offense in CA. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't look at why he did what he did.