I'm so excited, because I found a link where you can watch this doc online! I honestly think this is a documentary that everyone should see when they're in middle school or high school, especially young girls, as they are increasingly susceptible to this kind of advertising ( Read more... )

Our pharmacy has been getting at least 40 calls a day asking if we have potassium iodide pills, it's getting ridiculous. The mass hysteria and ignorance about the radiation from Japan is really getting annoying, seriously. Even the radiation from Chernobyl was like 1/10th the level of an X-Ray - this? From Japan? Is going to be LESS than that ( Read more... )

I was reading through my f-list, and suddenly found myself reading about the beating and murder of a man named Aaron Hall.

Does it bother me that the men who committed these atrocities are using the "gay panic" defense?

Yes.

Does it bother me more that such a ridiculous and illogical defense might actually have a snowball's chance in hell of ( Read more... )

There's a fairly old article (it's from 2002) that debunks a lot of popular medical myths. I especially like the part where he debunks the widely circulated theory that people only use 10% of their brains. He's all, it's obvious if you even have a smidgen of common sense - "never has a doctor said, 'You'll be fine.The bullet is lodged in the 90% ( Read more... )

Did anyone know about this - South Daokta OKs bans on most abortions? Because this happened in February, and I had no fucking clue this was even a possibility, let alone the fact that both the House and the Senate passed the thing. Can I just say two things?

1) WTF to the government: this isn't 1984, and no one wants it to be, so why the hell ( Read more... )

A fresh batch of Bumper Sticker icons, except these concentrate on politics. I watched too much episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, so I was in a definite mood.

WARNING: Not conservative or Republican friendly.

[2] Anti-Bush
[5] Anti-Mass Media/Media Bias
[4] Pro-choice
[5] Miscellaneous

( Follow the yellow brick road... )

One of the classes I'm taking this quarter is a Social Science class. To be more specific, Media and Democracy. It's a very interesting class, but more so now that we're studying media bias and such. It was especially interesting today, when we got to see the first half of Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on JournalismIt's a documentary on the ( Read more... )

Ganked from seimaisin's post on it, because this is just the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

"New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves -- and to be treated by the health care system -- as pre-pregnant, regardless of whether they plan to get pregnant anytime soon ( Read more... )