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Most people seem to assume that there's no such thing as overdosing on an over-the-counter pill; if one dose doesn't take the sting from their pain, they simply pop another. But you can't gobble acetaminophen tablets like so many M&Ms. The drug produces toxic byproducts that are funneled to the liver--which ends up working overtime to clear them out of the body. If you ingest too much acetaminophen, toxins can build up in the bloodstream and do serious damage...
...After all, they got to complain about Jerri to their heart's content, and hardly made a secret about it upon the two ladies' return. Ah, how lonely Ms. Popular and her lovely assistant seem...
...NAMBLA) espouses ideas so hideous--namely, the lowering of the age of consent for engaging in sex--that "it is unthinkable that the American government would allow this organization to continue." However, such a decision is not up to the government. The First Amendment, which protects NAMBLA's (and Ms. Melia's) freedom of association and freedom of speech, specifically takes such a decision out of the hands of the government. Hence, it is quite thinkable that NAMBLA will win the lawsuit pending against it that seeks to shut down its website and shut up its members...
Should the courts protect NAMBLA's right to exist and to promote its admittedly unpopular views on its website? Ms. Melia predicts not on the basis of her conclusion that the First Amendment "is not an edict allowing deviants the freedom to express their depraved desires." However, she obviously has not read many of the high court's First Amendment cases. Just as the Constitution protects pure thoughts and words, it likewise protects "depraved" desires, as long as those desires are spoken but not acted upon. For example in a recent case the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the right...
...Ms. Melia is uncomfortable with NAMBLA's existence--that's obvious. But she's even more uncomfortable with what she contemptuously refers to, in quotation marks" as those "inalienable rights," such as free speech, that we citizens "stretch too far" for her taste...