Some Ice With Your Spirituality? Ashley Smith, the Georgia woman who persuaded her murderous captor to release her by reading him excerpts from "The Purpose-Driven Life," has now admitted she also gave him some of her crystal methamphetamine.

What a fable for our times! Nothing is simple anymore. Rafael Palmeiro takes steroids and Viagra; Kate Moss does blow; Lance Armstrong may or may not have taken hormones; Ashley Smith snorts a little meth. (You do snort it, don't you?) Everyone, apparently, is medicated, and the line between the legal and the illegal never seems to make sense.

Me, I like some good strong coffee in the morning....  ¶ 7:12 AM