The media is on a Witchhunt says Dr. Sanity about the Celebrex “scandal”.

Hello??? Newsflash: EVERY SINGLE DRUG ON THE MARKET – EVEN OVER-THE-COUNTER DRUGS – HAVE SIDE EFFECTS AND POSE RISKS TO ANYONE WHO TAKES THEM. Let’s take aspirin, for example. Did you know that it can kill you if you take a modest overdose? That it can lead to disastrous internal bleeding (that can kill you)? I personally know some people who have developed irreversible tinnitus (ringing in the ears) from taking it? Yes, this is ASPIRIN for God’s sake! I won’t even go into Tylenol (acetophenamine)–but it can destroy your liver and is potentially kill you. So can Ibuprofen. So can any pill you take for any reason.

Read it all, as it is the winner of this week’s Watcher’s Council.

Second place was a tie between The Sundries Shack with Castro: US Equals Nazis, which addresses the Castro response to the U.S. Christmas decorations, and King of Fools with Ballots Making Like Rabbits, a treatise on the ballots that keep getting “discovered” in heavily-Democrat precincts in Washington.

The Diplomad’s Ratman of the Far Abroad took first place in the non-member category as the Watcher chose it in a tie-breaking decision. Second place is Sean Gleeson’s Ten More Reasons to Hate Rumsfeld. Both are highly imaginative and deserve a read.

All posts that received a vote are listed on the Watcher’s site.