He's also a former drug abuser (which reflects on his character - both that he abused drugs, and kicked it: You decide if it's good or bad in the balance) but his prior addiction has made him essentially insensitive to opiates, which was evidenced a year or so ago when, post surgery (for hemorrhoids, afaik, not that there is anything wrong with that) he demonstrated how out of control he is with minor pain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1rLv_hNeI&feature=player_embedded

I don't watch Beck (or O'Riley, or Limbaugh, or Alex Jones or a bunch of other people - why waste my life watching TV when I can waste it on the internet?) but I am worried at the influence he has.

Emergency Medicine - saving the world from themselves, one at a time.

"Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."

I make the ADL soil themselves. And that makes me very happy smile