Miscellaneous

Guest Post from the Dirty Rotten Junkie

May 5, 2011
By
PhilL

And now for something completely different…. As someone who has professionally and personally researched addiction, I am always on the lookout  for recovery related writings. This one is the first guest writing I have posted on The Madrigal Maniac and it is re-posted from The Dirty Rotten Junkie. This particular junkie is not only...

Read more »

The Madrigal Maniac is Back

March 11, 2011
By

Due to several reasons I have not been blogging over the past year.  Some reasons were health related, others were computer related (malware),  but it was mostly a general malaise I felt towards blogging. But I’m back in the mood and there is much to talk about. John Freshwater was finally fired for preaching...

Read more »

Garfunkel & Oates Video on Medical Marijuana

December 19, 2009
By

I was turned on to Garfunkel and Oates by a Pho post which I can’t find on his site. If you’ve read this blog at all you know I’m a Social Worker with a scope of practice that includes addiction. One of the arguments for smoking marijuana that makes me laugh the hardest is...

Read more »

Check Out Jim Carrey’s New Web Site

November 6, 2009
By
Check Out Jim Carrey’s New Web Site

It’s Friday night and I’m tired from work and tired of talking politics… So I thought I’d post something fun. You might want to check out actor Jim Carrey’s personal web site. Entertainment Weekly called it “A Visually Stunning Treat.” And it is. Here’s a look. Depending on your ISP it can be a...

Read more »

The Most Ignorant Reader Comment I Have Ever Seen

October 27, 2009
By

The Columbus Dispatch has a story regarding a 17 year old Muslim girl who converted to Christianity and fled to Florida because she thought her father would kill her. In response, some person named “bird dog” wrote the following. How many more 9-11 type attacks is it going to take to make our country...

Read more »

Burger King Ad May Promote Oral Sex

June 27, 2009
By
Burger King Ad May Promote Oral Sex

Thanks to Mother Jones for this, but I think it originates from this site The Modern Voice. Some may find this funny. But suggesting that young women ought to believe that oral sex is like eating a hamburger demeans all of us. I think it represents the thinking of a 16 year old boy....

Read more »

Where Do You Stand on the Political Spectrum?

May 7, 2009
By
Where Do You Stand on the Political Spectrum?

There is a survey you can take at Political Compass that will show you where you stand on the political spectrum. Hat tip to Buckeye RINO for turning me on to it. Here is my chart. I thought I would be a little farther to the left and not as far down on the...

Read more »

Actor Hooked on Kitty Krack

February 22, 2009
By

I’m a cat lover, but I never gave either one of the cats I have owned catnip. A few years ago I saw a friend give her feline some catnip. His eyes glazed over and he began to hop and roll around the floor in a wild euphoric state. He wouldn’t stop begging her...

Read more »

The Madrigal Maniac

A Central Ohio Social Worker striving to bring justice to the City of Columbus and the State of Ohio through respectful conversation.

RSS The Columbus Dispatch

  • Police investigate death on the Hilltop
    Police haven’t determined what caused the death of a man who was found by a woman in her Hilltop home this morning, but the investigation will continue. Sgt. Christ Holzhauser, a Columbus police homicide detective, said the man was staying temporarily at the woman’s home at 69 S. Ogden Ave., but she didn’t know him very well. She called police at about 10:30 […]
  • Sheriff's office searches for suspects in Marysville abduction, rape
    The Union County sheriff’s office is searching for two suspects after a woman said she was abducted and sexually assaulted following a fake traffic stop. […]
  • Komen’s reversal on Planned Parenthood irks some
    When the leaders of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation announced yesterday that they were reversing their decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood, some donors who had been angry said all was forgiven. […]
  • Into the crossfire
    Laura Robinson said she no longer will jaywalk across Morse Road. The North Side resident watched a man die Thursday night after he darted across the busy roadway near Kingshill Drive and was struck by three vehicles. […]
  • Police ID pedestrian hit, killed Thursday on North Side
    Police this morning identified a man who was struck and killed Thursday while crossing a busy road on the North Side. Rene Antonio Deras, 44, of El Salvador, was crossing Morse Road near the intersection of Kingshill Drive at about 10:30 p.m. when witnesses said he was hit by at least two vehicles, one of which fled the scene. […]

The Preferred Choice of the Madrigal Maniac

 

Advertisement

Advertisement