The McCain campaign is crowing today about the endorsement of their candidate by Rambo. Presumably Mac is eager to have his own answer to Chuck Norris, who has been such a hit pimping for Mike Huckabee.

But does anyone else find it incongruous that McCain, who has held Senate hearings on steroids in baseball, and just last month shamed the Rocket for his alleged Human Growth Hormone use — “I’m very disappointed with Roger Clemens” — is now locking arms with Sly Stallone?

This is the same Stallone, after all, who was convicted in Australia last May for illegally importing human growth hormone and testosterone into that country — including 48 vials of an HGH drug banned in the U.S.

Stallone, in court documents, claimed he needed the performance enhancing drugs for his latest Rambo flick, filmed in the jungles of Southeast Asia: “As you get older, the pituitary gland slows and you feel older, your bones narrow,” he said, “This stuff gives your body a boost and you feel and look good. Doing Rambo is hard work. Where do you think I am going to get this stuff in Burma?”

Obama, today, before a High School crowd in Manchester:

I made some bad decisions that I’ve actually written about. You know, got into drinking. I experimented with drugs. There was a whole stretch of time that I didn’t really apply myself a lot. It wasn’t until I got out of high school and went to college that I started realizing, “Man, I wasted a lot of time.”

He drank. He inhaled. He even snorted. He doesn’t lie about it. Or prevaricate. He uses that experience not to demagogue drugs, but to talk about them honestly as a distraction… a barrier to becoming the man he eventually matured into.

British researchers have cracked the science behind … beer goggles.

Forget soybeans.

Let’s talk genetically modified marijuana.

That’s what Mexican officials are doing, as they’ve discovered plantations grown from a new genetically modified Columbian strain that survives pesticides and can be planted year-round.

This is RoundUp Ready Columbian supremo. Absurd.

I think it’s high time we had a Baker/Hamilton commission to look at the war on drugs and dream up a graceful exit.

Because let’s face it. If pot is your nation’s top cash crop, and the Columbians are going all Monsanto on the DEA’s ass, the gig is up.

Here’s a shocker:

Most Americans have had premarital sex

The AP headline doesn’t really get to the wet-and-wild nub of it: Ninety-Five Percent of Americans, young and old, engage or once engaged in pre-nuptial nookie, according to a longitudinal survey of the sexual behavior of more than 38,000 people.

UPDATE: My sister-in-law, an STD doc for L.A. County, highlights this finding for me:  “I think what’s really interesting about this is that they interviewed folks born in the 1940’s and 1950’s as well. So much for saying that times have changed!  It’s probably that one no longer is frowned upon for disclosing premaritial sex.”

What’s more, three fourths of all Americans give it up to somebody other than their spouse by age 20. All of which suggests that the Bush administration’s $100 million anti-fucking campaigns are worse than fucking futile, they’re fucking anti-American.

This tops off a terrific triumverate of holiday news.

First: Booze is good for you.

Second: Valued at $35 billion, marijuana is America’s top cash crop.

And third: Everybody fucks.

So get out there and enjoy your Christmas parties America.

It’s OK. Everybody’s doing it.

Is Budweiser right for you? Only your doctor can say for sure.

A new study shows dramatic health benefits among men consuming up to four drinks a day and women knocking back two.

So booze it up, America, and live 18 percent longer.

This Los Angeles Times op-ed about dealing with the degeneration of Afghanistan into a terror/narco state presents one of the most interesting arguments I’ve read all year:

The solution is simple. Instead of destroying Afghanistan’s most valuable resource, Western governments should buy it outright and resell it to producers of legal opiate-based painkillers on the global market. Instead of confronting Afghan farmers about their crop, our representatives should be approaching them with hard cash.

This has been successfully tried before. In the early 1970s, the Nixon administration began to demand that the opium farmers of southern Turkey destroy their crops. Every attempt at destruction — carried out by reluctant Turkish prime ministers coerced with threats of cuts in U.S. military aid — failed. Eventually, Turkey was considered to be such a crucial Cold War ally that the U.S. granted it an exception. So Turkey joined India as a legal supplier of opiates for pain-control purposes, and it remains so today. Isn’t Afghanistan even more important today than Turkey was in the 1970s?

It is a strange truth that if President Bush really wants to live up to his rhetoric about saving Afghanistan, he must urgently launch the biggest drug deal in history.

From Reader “Jimmy Jazz” responding to the post  Haggard’s Unhappy Ending

Maybe this makes me a bad Christian, but I’m sorry, there’s a bit of satisfaction involved when a conservative, fundamentalist preacher gets caught mired in the same sleeze he condems on a regular basis.

Forget the gay angle for a minute: the man bought meth from a prostitute? I really don’t give a shit what gender said hooker happened to be, drugs and prostitution are wrong no matter what your religous beliefs.

Say the whole thing is being blown out of proportion if you want, but I’m sorry, I think it’s news when we find out the President is being called weekly by a methed-up john.