# Rush's unfortunate boner... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 27, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361 "2006-06-27T17:09:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/41 "2006-06-27T21:45:56Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Does Viagra suck all the blood out of the upper brain? Oh, now you’re saying he has an upper brain? :rolleyes: I’ll admit it. It’s probably a tempest in a teapot, but I love hearing that he’s having troubles. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/42 "2006-06-27T21:50:38Z")
Oh, it’s almost a given that he’ll skate, but worth a few yuks in the meantime. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/43 "2006-06-27T23:39:53Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > I hope he gets a stiff penalty. Oh, he’ll be doing hard time! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/44 "2006-06-28T00:38:30Z")
After release will he be eligible to vote in the next erection? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/45 "2006-06-28T00:43:30Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > And my opinion is that you can’t defend your position with _ad hominems_. So, meh. > Wow, that’s some lazy logic. To make it a comparison that would be more apt would be to discard the car since the brakes failed. > Again, it’s not an either/or syllogism or false dilemma. If folks chose not to educate themselves, they can go to…hmm… maybe a doctor or pharmacist who would recommend the drugs they should take. As an adult they’re allowed those choices. Again, you need to read about [antibiotic resistance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_resistance). It’s a very real threat. And some of it is due to the [misuse of antibiotics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotics#Antibiotic_misuse) by people who think they know more than medical experts. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/46 "2006-06-28T00:55:52Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > And my opinion is that you can’t defend your position with _ad hominems_. So, meh. He’s countering what he feels is lackluster argumentation on your part with equally fallacious argumentation. (Take it for what it’s worth–not necessarily much more than dryer lint–but I’m about as impressed by your exposition and defense here as he is.) Plus, y’know, it’s the Pit and all. 's par for the course. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/47 "2006-06-28T00:58:15Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > After release will he be eligible to vote in the next erection? Dangling chad? Is that what the kids are calling it these days? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/48 "2006-06-28T01:07:07Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > And my opinion is that you can’t defend your position with _ad hominems_. So, meh. That wasn’t a defense, dude. It’s not like I _need_ to mount a defense against ‘meh’. Even if you say it a second time. > [@](#): > > Wow, that’s some lazy logic. Says the guy who was too lazy to offer any at all. 😃 > [@](#): > > Again, it’s not an either/or syllogism or false dilemma. If folks chose not to educate themselves, they can go to…hmm… maybe a doctor or pharmacist who would recommend the drugs they should take. And how will they know if the doctor or pharmacist (a) knows their stuff, and (b) isn’t a hired hack of a snake-oil firm? Or will the medical profession have the regulation that drugs themselves lack, in your bizarro-world? > [@](#): > > As an adult they’re allowed those choices. Yeah, and maybe we should stop spending money on guardrails so we have the free choice to drive off the bridge or the cliff at any moment we feel the urge. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/49 "2006-06-28T01:39:19Z")
I can’t **wait** to see what John Stewart does with this! 😃 Thank you, Jesus! ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/50 "2006-06-28T01:49:37Z")
When a well known public figure’s best laid (heh) plans go awry like this, I think it’s roughly the equivalent of that figure going around to all the best-known comedians and late-night hosts and simply handing them cash. If I were Jon Stewart I’d have a four-foot woody myself dreaming of the next monologue. I mean, the ratings boost alone! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/51 "2006-06-28T03:28:24Z")
> [@BJMoose](#): > > Slimebaugh’s lawyer is saying the bottle was intentionally mislabeled. Wouldn’t it be illegal for a pharmacist to knowingly print false information on a prescription label? MD writes script in his own name, pharmacist fills and labels as per ordered. Viagra = prescription medication, BUT NOT = controlled substance. As long as the script itself is a legit script from a legit MD, anyone can take it to the apothecary, pick up finished order, pay for it. Or at least so in many states. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/52 "2006-06-28T03:50:50Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Hell, with some, like antibiotics, you’re not just putting yourself at risk. Abusing antibiotics has the potential to cause strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria, which fucks over everyone. Guin, the overwhelming source of antibiotic resistance is from agricultural use, which does not require prescription, and the major pools of human infections of resistant strains come from hospitals and nursing homes, where the drugs are very closely controlled by doctors. The real facts of life don’t support your argument. Tris ---
**Author:** ![Subterraneanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Subterraneanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subterraneanus)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/53 "2006-06-28T06:25:27Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > … best laid (heh) plans go awry like this … \*But, Rushie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foreskin may be vain … \* ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/54 "2006-06-28T06:48:31Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Again, you need to read about [antibiotic resistance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_resistance). I go on antibiotics a couple times a year actually and am quite aware of the possibility of antibiotic resistance. > [@Guinastasia](#): > > It’s a very real threat. And some of it is due to the [misuse of antibiotics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotics#Antibiotic_misuse) by people who think they know more than medical experts. Wow, so people are getting antibiotics which are available only by prescription because they think they know more than medical experts. See the problem in your argument there? I know you post a lot, but could you bothered to read what ya post and have it have some merit or value? > [@iampunha](#): > > He’s countering what he feels is lackluster argumentation on your part with equally fallacious argumentation. (Take it for what it’s worth–not necessarily much more than dryer lint–but I’m about as impressed by your exposition and defense here as he is.) Well, this isn’t great debates, I proffered by opinion and have lackadaisicly defended it. I could go more in depth if I felt that my opponent were worth it. > [@RTFirefly](#): > > That wasn’t a defense, dude. It’s not like I need to mount a defense against ‘meh’. Even if you say it a second time. Nah, it’s obvious you don’t have the intellectual fortitude to _mount_ your mother-cousin again. So, I really don’t expect much from you anymore. See, it’s easy and fun just to insult instead of being attempting at being a feign intellectual and rubbing those two wet sticks inside your cranial cavity. > [@RTFirefly](#): > > And how will they know if the doctor or pharmacist (a) knows their stuff, and (b) isn’t a hired hack of a snake-oil firm? Or will the medical profession have the regulation that drugs themselves lack, in your bizarro-world? I guess everything needs to be regulated in your world, eh. It’s really a realm of either/or and false dilemmas to make your point. 'Scuse me while I don’t mount a quaint rebuttal to the corn-laden diarrhea that flows from your posts. > [@RTFirefly](#): > > Yeah, and maybe we should stop spending money on guardrails so we have the free choice to drive off the bridge or the cliff at any moment we feel the urge Hey, if you want guard rails, by all means go pay for 'em. In fact, if you need to keep paying your mom to cut your jell-o into smaller bites, slap that 50 cents on the table and settle up the tab. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/55 "2006-06-28T09:17:53Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I can’t **wait** to see what John Stewart does with this! 😃 > Thank you, Jesus! I love it when he does that! There’s just something so hysterical about a Jew thanking Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/56 "2006-06-28T10:00:22Z")
If he’d had the Viagra in his own name their would have been no problem, in fact there would have been no outcry or publicity at all, security would have closed up his wash-bag and he’d have been on his way, with no-one the wiser (except the security guard). However, it is prescription fraud for the drug to be knowingly issued in one name, when it is intended for use by another person. I have no idea what Limbaugh or his doctor were thinking. The excuse of privacy doesn’t hold water, because patient confidentiality already protects patients from their prescription medications becoming public knowledge. He got exactly what he deserved. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/57 "2006-06-28T11:51:44Z")
Public humiliation? Oh yes, definitely. I’d go further and say he deserves to be treated like…say…me, if I got caught doc-shopping for hillbilly heroin and violating parole. But that won’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/58 "2006-06-28T12:20:27Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > When a well known public figure’s best laid (heh) plans go awry like this, I think it’s roughly the equivalent of that figure going around to all the best-known comedians and late-night hosts and simply handing them cash. If I were Jon Stewart I’d have a four-foot woody myself dreaming of the next monologue. I mean, the ratings boost alone! It’s been a damned good year for Jon, hasn’t it? **irishgirl** , you’re a doctor or about to be-what do you have to say about misuse of antibiotics. I know the majority of resistance might not be from people who don’t take them properly, but I’ve heard it DOES contribute. It’s not that people get them without prescription, per se, it’s that people take them only until they feel better, and save the rest for later. Then they take them when they don’t need them, or pass them along to others (Yes, I’ve seen it done). Or they find some doctor who’ll give them a script when they truly DON’T need it. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/59 "2006-06-28T12:51:37Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > 'Scuse me while I don’t mount a quaint rebuttal to the corn-laden diarrhea that flows from your posts. > > \ > > Well, this isn’t great debates, I proffered by opinion and have lackadaisicly defended it. I could go more in depth if I felt that my opponent were worth it. I think I’ll let that stand, in all its glory. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rushs-unfortunate-boner/362361/60 "2006-06-28T15:42:55Z")
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