Filed under "Know Thy Enemy"

Cross-posted from all over:

"The American Family Association is hoping to stack the decks for this years People's Choice Awards to (as the latest missive from Don "Wouldn't Know A Real Family if It Bit Him In The Ass" Wildmon puts it) "make sure The Passion Of The Christ gets more votes than any other movie in history." The e-mail includes a link that (funny thing) takes you to the AFA site, where you're asked to give them all sorts of personal information and agree to accept their mailings, at which point they'll magically whisk you to CBS's People's Choice voting page.

"But, shoot, it's a lot easier than that. And there are far better movies to vote for than that bloody religious snuff film."

Go here to vote: PCA Vote

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I went, I did. But...

"Best Look"? (No guys.)
"Best HAIR?" (No guys. Again.)

WTF. Talk about your priorities being in a wad.

And yes, it's already happening. You have to choose between Shrek 2 and The Incredibles for Best. Poo.

Filed under "Know Thy Enemy"

Cross-posted from all over:

"The American Family Association is hoping to stack the decks for this years People's Choice Awards to (as the latest missive from Don "Wouldn't Know A Real Family if It Bit Him In The Ass" Wildmon puts it) "make sure The Passion Of The Christ gets more votes than any other movie in history." The e-mail includes a link that (funny thing) takes you to the AFA site, where you're asked to give them all sorts of personal information and agree to accept their mailings, at which point they'll magically whisk you to CBS's People's Choice voting page.

"But, shoot, it's a lot easier than that. And there are far better movies to vote for than that bloody religious snuff film."

Go here to vote: PCA Vote

--

I went, I did. But...

"Best Look"? (No guys.)
"Best HAIR?" (No guys. Again.)

WTF. Talk about your priorities being in a wad.

And yes, it's already happening. You have to choose between Shrek 2 and The Incredibles for Best. Poo.

Filed under "Know Thy Enemy"

Cross-posted from all over:

"The American Family Association is hoping to stack the decks for this years People's Choice Awards to (as the latest missive from Don "Wouldn't Know A Real Family if It Bit Him In The Ass" Wildmon puts it) "make sure The Passion Of The Christ gets more votes than any other movie in history." The e-mail includes a link that (funny thing) takes you to the AFA site, where you're asked to give them all sorts of personal information and agree to accept their mailings, at which point they'll magically whisk you to CBS's People's Choice voting page.

"But, shoot, it's a lot easier than that. And there are far better movies to vote for than that bloody religious snuff film."

Go here to vote: PCA Vote

--

I went, I did. But...

"Best Look"? (No guys.)
"Best HAIR?" (No guys. Again.)

WTF. Talk about your priorities being in a wad.

And yes, it's already happening. You have to choose between Shrek 2 and The Incredibles for Best. Poo.

A slice of life -

The Bern Onion Market in Switzerland - in pictures.

I've been told this is really something special - from someone who grew up in Bern, of course.

I'm just a little homesick for the hot onion pie slices I used to live on this time of year - you could get one for just a couple of francs and it was lunch.

A slice of life -

The Bern Onion Market in Switzerland - in pictures.

I've been told this is really something special - from someone who grew up in Bern, of course.

I'm just a little homesick for the hot onion pie slices I used to live on this time of year - you could get one for just a couple of francs and it was lunch.

A slice of life -

The Bern Onion Market in Switzerland - in pictures.

I've been told this is really something special - from someone who grew up in Bern, of course.

I'm just a little homesick for the hot onion pie slices I used to live on this time of year - you could get one for just a couple of francs and it was lunch.

Japanese Teens Are Having Sex

And they're getting VD, too. At a much higher rate than I would have assumed - one in 10, overall.

So where are the teen pregnancies? They're blaming the high incidence of chlamydia on inadequate sex education. Japan has an almost non-existent teen pregnancy problem compared to the US - but abortion on demand. But you never hear about it, either. As was once told to me, the Japanese deal with teen pregnancy in one of two ways - abortion or marriage. I'm still researching the adoption angle, but haven't had much luck. Fancy that.

Wonder where we fall on this scale - with education issues like this one. It's really hard to get good numbers here, BTW. We don't require reporting of many procedures to a central reporting agency (the closest thing we have are services insurance companies use to determine risk, based on claims made to them) - so you can say we do BAMF procedures per capita, but it's hard to corroborate. You know the drill. Just listen to how many abortions are done in this country in a year. From both sides. The disparity is enough to toss both of them out as either biased, inadequate or just plain wrong.

However, in Japan, medicine is socialized, and you can get pretty good empirical data - if the assumption that you report all procedures is true. You can get pretty good empirical data in Denmark for that reason - you pay enough for medical care, nobody really thinks it's worth the trouble to side-step the system. (That's subjective as hell, but it's what I've been told over the years.)

Food for thought -

Japanese Teens Are Having Sex

And they're getting VD, too. At a much higher rate than I would have assumed - one in 10, overall.

So where are the teen pregnancies? They're blaming the high incidence of chlamydia on inadequate sex education. Japan has an almost non-existent teen pregnancy problem compared to the US - but abortion on demand. But you never hear about it, either. As was once told to me, the Japanese deal with teen pregnancy in one of two ways - abortion or marriage. I'm still researching the adoption angle, but haven't had much luck. Fancy that.

Wonder where we fall on this scale - with education issues like this one. It's really hard to get good numbers here, BTW. We don't require reporting of many procedures to a central reporting agency (the closest thing we have are services insurance companies use to determine risk, based on claims made to them) - so you can say we do BAMF procedures per capita, but it's hard to corroborate. You know the drill. Just listen to how many abortions are done in this country in a year. From both sides. The disparity is enough to toss both of them out as either biased, inadequate or just plain wrong.

However, in Japan, medicine is socialized, and you can get pretty good empirical data - if the assumption that you report all procedures is true. You can get pretty good empirical data in Denmark for that reason - you pay enough for medical care, nobody really thinks it's worth the trouble to side-step the system. (That's subjective as hell, but it's what I've been told over the years.)

Food for thought -

Japanese Teens Are Having Sex

And they're getting VD, too. At a much higher rate than I would have assumed - one in 10, overall.

So where are the teen pregnancies? They're blaming the high incidence of chlamydia on inadequate sex education. Japan has an almost non-existent teen pregnancy problem compared to the US - but abortion on demand. But you never hear about it, either. As was once told to me, the Japanese deal with teen pregnancy in one of two ways - abortion or marriage. I'm still researching the adoption angle, but haven't had much luck. Fancy that.

Wonder where we fall on this scale - with education issues like this one. It's really hard to get good numbers here, BTW. We don't require reporting of many procedures to a central reporting agency (the closest thing we have are services insurance companies use to determine risk, based on claims made to them) - so you can say we do BAMF procedures per capita, but it's hard to corroborate. You know the drill. Just listen to how many abortions are done in this country in a year. From both sides. The disparity is enough to toss both of them out as either biased, inadequate or just plain wrong.

However, in Japan, medicine is socialized, and you can get pretty good empirical data - if the assumption that you report all procedures is true. You can get pretty good empirical data in Denmark for that reason - you pay enough for medical care, nobody really thinks it's worth the trouble to side-step the system. (That's subjective as hell, but it's what I've been told over the years.)

Food for thought -