Holiday weekend 7/3/05
Last week the AMA decided to waffle on the issue of drug companies marketing directly to consumers. Perhaps one of the big pharmaceutical companies made them an offer they couldn't refuse. Maybe the only way to get serious attention drawn to this issue is to figure out a way to sue the drug companies for malpractice the next time a patient encourages his doctor to prescribe something he saw on TV (this apparently happens a lot) and then has a bad reaction to it.
Or maybe--well, where is the Religious Right when we really need it? Okay, we do see a lot of ads for "the little purple pill" for gastric reflux (like people color-coordinate their meds, right?) and a couple of anti-depressants, but what we mostly see ads for on TV--and usually smack in the middle of prime time--are medications for erectile dysfunction and genital herpes. Do we really want our kids watching these ads? Or, more to the point, do we really want to have to explain to our kids what erectile dysfunction is? Or, worse still, do we want to live with the likelihood that they already know? If I had kids at home right now, I would be totally dismayed, and would probably keep my TV on TIVO permanently to keep them from seeing those ads. I can't be the only person who feels that way. Probably most parents don't mind their kids learning about depression and indigestion, but genital herpes? Yikes!
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Celebrating the Fourth:
Apparently we are once again headed for a constitutional amendment to ban flag-burning. So no doubt people who are into flag-burning should do it while they still have the right to, before our glorious leaders trash the substance of what America stands for in order to protect the symbol. But personally, I prefer to keep my symbolic actions in line with what Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas suggested back in the '60s when flag-burning was somewhat more popular than it is now: don't burn the flag, wash it. Maybe we should all head down to our local parade stands with a dishpan, a flag, and some soap and water to celebrate the Fourth by cleansing our national symbol of the lies and violations with which this administration has defiled it. Sounds like good clean fun to me.
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Game for the week:
Since I'm a history buff, I like to collect "odd lots" of historical personages who have something in common that most people would never guess. This week's odd lot is:
Emma Goldman
Walt Whitman
Louisa May Alcott
Mary Renault
P.D. James
Respond under "comments" if you think you know. Have a good picnic.
Or maybe--well, where is the Religious Right when we really need it? Okay, we do see a lot of ads for "the little purple pill" for gastric reflux (like people color-coordinate their meds, right?) and a couple of anti-depressants, but what we mostly see ads for on TV--and usually smack in the middle of prime time--are medications for erectile dysfunction and genital herpes. Do we really want our kids watching these ads? Or, more to the point, do we really want to have to explain to our kids what erectile dysfunction is? Or, worse still, do we want to live with the likelihood that they already know? If I had kids at home right now, I would be totally dismayed, and would probably keep my TV on TIVO permanently to keep them from seeing those ads. I can't be the only person who feels that way. Probably most parents don't mind their kids learning about depression and indigestion, but genital herpes? Yikes!
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Celebrating the Fourth:
Apparently we are once again headed for a constitutional amendment to ban flag-burning. So no doubt people who are into flag-burning should do it while they still have the right to, before our glorious leaders trash the substance of what America stands for in order to protect the symbol. But personally, I prefer to keep my symbolic actions in line with what Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas suggested back in the '60s when flag-burning was somewhat more popular than it is now: don't burn the flag, wash it. Maybe we should all head down to our local parade stands with a dishpan, a flag, and some soap and water to celebrate the Fourth by cleansing our national symbol of the lies and violations with which this administration has defiled it. Sounds like good clean fun to me.
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Game for the week:
Since I'm a history buff, I like to collect "odd lots" of historical personages who have something in common that most people would never guess. This week's odd lot is:
Emma Goldman
Walt Whitman
Louisa May Alcott
Mary Renault
P.D. James
Respond under "comments" if you think you know. Have a good picnic.
posted by WiredSisters at 11:47 AM
1 Comments:
Hmmm...something in common that most would never guess...of course, Marian, I doubt that most would guess that they had anything in common. Well, they all spoke English. And they all wrote at least one book.
I'm trying to imagine PD James hosting Emma Goldman in the House of Lords dining room...
Jon
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