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  • 'Tampa Trib' Editor Arrested for DUI (Dinosaur Media Imbiber Alert)

    05/09/2006 4:54:58 PM PDT · by abb · 33 replies · 910+ views
    Editor & Publisher ^ | May 9, 2006 | Staff
    Published: May 09, 2006 12:20 PM ET NEW YORK A report in the Tampa Tribune today states that Janet Weaver, the executive editor of the paper, was arrested early this morning on a charge of DUI. Tampa police arrested Weaver at 12:30 a.m., says the report, and found that she had a blood alcohol level between 0.081 and 0.085. The legal limit for drivers in Florida is 0.08. She spent about five hours in jail, and then was released on $500 bond. Weaver was hired to be managing editor at the Tribune in 2004, and was promoted to executive editor...
  • Every thesis has its antithesis

    01/02/2005 4:51:59 PM PST · by Kitten Festival · 1 replies · 168+ views
    The American Thinker ^ | Jan. 2, 2004 | Thomas Lifson
    learn, via a Los Angeles Times article, of a recently-established magazine calling itself Modern Drunkard, dedicated to heavy drinkers and heavy drinking. My initial response was a chuckle and the assumption it was some kind of satirical parody. But sure enough, it has a website, and may even have the circulation of 50,00 which it claims. Although I am in the wine business as a part-timer, I do not find the excessive consumption of alcohol to be an attractive practice - for myself or others. Drunks lose control, and it isn't pretty. Many of those controls (inhibitions, if you will)...