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Karadzic, Now and Then

If you're down he'll pick you up Dr. Robert,
Take a drink from his special cup Dr. Robert
--Dr. Robert, The Beatles
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The world of alternative healing is stranger than you can imagine. Beyond your iridiology, hot rocks or chakra elevating via digeridoo, consider the case of captured war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic.

Mr. Karadzic has been living on the lam for a decade in Serbia's capital, Belgrade, as neo- Rasputin New Ager with-his-own-website [here], Dr. Dragan "David" Dabic -- "bioenergy and macrobiotic specialist."

Looking every bit Dr. Andrew Weil's alter-ego, he held well-attended conferences and was even a regular contributor to Zdrav Život (Healthy Life) magazine. Radio Netherlands reports Karadzic "Led a Normal Life," as such suffices as normal over there.

Now, Panama hat-wearing Dr. Dragan of the nifty black cowlick will be extradited to the U.N. tribunal in The Hague for his part in genocidal crimes during the 1992-95 Balkan War.

Meanwhile, witchdoctors are hunting down albinos in Zimbabwe for their body parts and hair, which are then rendered into potions which will help bring affluence upon the lucky ingesters. Same-same in Tanzania and Kenya. This is not the day of the light-skinned.

Times are tough, and people just wanna feel better. Exercycles and Atkins are so Old School.