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Meanwhile Moammar Gadhafi is attempting to slaughter his own people...

However, what are we to do with Sheen? Does the media that you say stands idly by stage an intervention? Do we lament for a millionaire who has been down this road before? Shall we be thankful that the star of a shit show canceled it himself with behaviour and spiteful rhetoric? Perhaps we should just sit back, enjoy the ride and let him learn the lesson on his own.

Frankly, I have better things to do and more important details to worry about other than this year's downward spiral.

by Friday, everyone will be bored of this and move on to the new hot story.

I'm in the middle of a West Wing rerun..

My heart brakes for Martin Sheen. And Emilio. All the Sheen's..
They must be so fucking embarrased/angry/dissapointed..

Fuck him. He made his choices. If people want to pay attention to his nonsense while he pretends to be clean, that's their business.

Last week he said he unravels very quickly and he is quickly bored. That's some insight, I guess, and maybe forewarning. Still don't like him, though. A social maverick--I also suspect people who claim not to care what others think. Yeah you do buddy. Be honest.

Man, total Meme Overload. It dramatically illustrates the state of memetic affairs, specifically the roles of Twitter & web logs ("blogs" for short) in propagating & likely overbreeding a meme. And there's a real feedback loop at work here: Found humor becomes commodity becomes more humor. The commoditized meme will wear on the hungry public, which will then move on to something else. Or maybe Charlie Sheen will spin out of this & into a career as a legit humorist; dude needs a blog. When he blogs, he must do so violently.

I don't care and won't participate in his judgment before the internet's kangaroo court of self righteous and hypocritic 'morality'.

I will joke that I cannot change rancid celery into fresh celery because I don't have tiger's blood in me.

Finally there is help for droopy eyed armless children everywhere www.droopyeyedarmlesschildren.org

He's not funny, he's sad. He's clearly in the middle of a HUGE manic episode, and when the crash comes, it's not going to be pretty. Anyone who has ever dealt with someone who is bipolar in their lives can barely stand to look at Charlie Sheen right now. He's imploding. I hope he gets help. He's pretty much the poster child for mental health right now.

So I'm not allowed to laugh at this guy? Yeah, I'm laughing AT him, not with him. Yes, he has most likely fried entire holes in his brain with 20 years of cocaine abuse, enabled by almost everyone around him and even the very industry he works/worked in. An industry we comment on all the time here.

So I can't laugh? Whatever. The guy is spouting off soundbites left and right, like you said. I'm just entertained. I'm ok with it.

Like someone else said, this'll be yesterday's news soon enough. And it's ridiculous to think a person can't closely follow what's going on in the world--the very serious stuff going down--AND have a laugh at a guy who fancies himself a warlock because coke's a helluva drug.

Don't ever take addicts too seriously. Take addiction seriously, yes. But not addicts. It's clear this guy has had multiple opportunities to get real help. It's clear he has family who loves him and is concerned. Its up to him what to do next. But yeah, if he spouts off about unicorn blood and such, I'll laugh.

I think most people just want to be there, front and center, to watch the train derail and destroy everything in its path.

That's it. Before, when you had your troubled star, most of his or her terrible crimes weren't heard of until they died. But now? We're getting to hear about it AS IT HAPPENS. It's the terrible magic of the internet, and no one wants to miss it.

And Sheen? Well he must think we all just love him and his fists of fire, and it's just going to keep going until he's either dead or we all become fascinated by someone else being at the door of insanity or death.

I, for one, am staying the hell away. I find the whole thing really fucking creepy.

I'm curious about something:

He may be dead before April, and in May, he’ll either be a martyr for the cause of banging bitches and doing blow or a cautionary tale on how the media stood idly by and watched another man destroy himself.

What exactly is the media supposed to do to save his life, to save him from himself? His own family can't seem to do anything. Law enforcement (a BRIEFCASE of cocaine???) seems unwilling. So the media is supposed to save him from himself? How?

Two words:

dry drunk

Rowles, the only difference between Sheen and my long deceased uncle is that Sheen is famous and my uncle wasn’t. Man destroys himself everyday, though not in such a public fashion, but nonetheless he destroys himself. Sheen has become a brand, a human billboard, something to be gawked at. You speak of Sheen as some cautionary tail different from the other thousand or so cautionary tales that litter Hollywood. I could care less what happens to Sheen, whether he lives or dies mean nothing to me. Sheen has the resources to get help, even though he thinks he doesn’t need any help. And I’m not going to spend one minute caring if he gets help or not, but I will enjoy the view.

Pookie - I would have thought the hookers were the "cautionary tail".

Don't ever take addicts too seriously. Take addiction seriously, yes. But not addicts.

Abso-fucking-lutely.

Here's another thing about (using) addicts: they all pull the same "I'm not the problem, YOU'RE the problem" shit. There is some small part of them that thinks they are managing their lives in an acceptable manner. It's not bad enough in their world to change things.

Clearly, Charlie Sheen can afford to keep his world comfortable enough for a long time to come, even at the astonishingly high rate of cash flow he must be experiencing. So we have awhile yet to watch him spin and strangle in his own little noose of addictions. There's going to be so much schadenfreude in watching him fall, when it finally happens, that the Germans will have invent another multisyllabic word just to cover all the nuances of our enjoyment in watching it.

I've lived it, with my ex, and it's hard to have sympathy for someone so invested in fucking up a perfectly good life.

It's exactly like Snuggiepants says.

You don't need to scold, moralize, or grope for meaning. The Charlie Sheen meltdown just is. And the focus of all of our attention is inevitable, because it is fascinating, funny, and spectacle. It can't really be prevented and it can't really be stopped or controlled. If not Charlie Sheen than someone else. All you can do is laugh. Why not?

And I think you found the perfect way to cover it on Pajiba: acknowledge it but engage slightly above the fray with some thoughtful cultural criticism.

See, this is why you were no fun as a gossip blogger.

Thank you for the great link blacksred.

I have a serious question:

At what point in the addiction spectrum/cycle/continuum does the line between disease, personal responsibility and choice lie? Could we get someone on that?

I've known addicts, as I suspect has everyone, and it has taken me a long time and a lot of Dr. Drew Pinksy to convince me of the disease angle. But I still have trouble being sympathetic to people who make what I perceive to be choices. I know the "it's their disease talking" stuff, but if people can and do choose to make the necessary changes to get better, why should I feel sorry for people who can't/won't?

Wish I could've been a fly on the wall when Sheen's agent heard the radio interview, lost it, then laid out his 5-point plan for Making The Best Of It. "What you did in that radio interview? Do it again. Bump? *beat* DAMNIT that was the whole bag! No wait, here's some more. But yeah, do that interview a bunch more times. Do you Tweet? No, it's a website, I don't think there's a drug with that name. I'll just set up your account, you can just type stuff into your phone. Just type stuff into your phone like it's another interview. Next step: Ditch the kids" & so on.

I am sure the two porn actresses (his goddesses) will take good care of him in his time of need. Until the blow runs out.

You know, if he didn't have little kids involved with all this, I'd just say "go on and destroy yourself", but like many of you, I have seen first hand how an addicted parent just messes up their children's lives.

And yet it is hard not to gawk and giggle because his meltdown was years in the making and it looks like it is going to be spectacular to observe. Like a volcano, which is awesome to watch until the lavaflow heads your way, then...not so much fun.

It's this

http://jezebel.com/#!5774374/charlie-sheens-history-of-violence-toward-women

that makes me wonder how the man's been given a pass for so long. And pretty much negates any sympathy I might have had for him (although I feel very bad for his kids).

admin's first comment inspired this thought...
Since he's beginning to confuse himself with Chuck Norris, let's find a constructive use for this invulnerable state of mind of his: give him a gun and a parachute and drop him over Tripoli. He's a Wolverine, ain't he?

there’s really only two options for this site


there ARE really only two options...

Okay, Charlie Sheen is boring now.

I know it's days later, but Thank You Darth Vlader.