The drugs don't work

So a 'shocking' new study says anti-depressants don't work for most people. Well, an optimistic outlook was always the most effective and healthy anti-depressant there is, so those drug company executives marketing their products won't have been cramming pills down their throats. The Verve were right. But there has been a victim in all this. Bart Simpson has been unfairly maligned. Last night on Channel 4, in the episode where Homer has to confront his homophobia and in the end becomes slightly more tolerant, at the start Bart is scribbling his punishment lines on the blackboard. And what are these disciplining Bart for? Bart writes over and over again "I will not hide the teacher's Prozac." This is most unjust - Bart was merely try to show the teacher that Prozac is a placebo and thus wean the unfortunate teacher off it. Yet he gets the authorities bearing down on him instead. What is the world coming to?
If Madonna is queen of that world, then probably to a sticky end. In WHSmith's next to the checkout till is a book entitled "Madonna" with the subtitle "Queen of the World." Queen of Pop, yes, but the world? As it had been remaindered down to 99p, Madonna is more queen of the bargain bin.