![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rkti have a new BAD poetry site. http://www.asininepoetry.com
SORORITY WORLD
by Dustin Michael
LITTLE Earth leaves the sorority meeting — initiated.
She escaped a hazing, but feels less than elated
at having rushed with the planets in this solar system;
she cringes she'll inevitably pillow fight and kiss them.
Of course Mercury's petite, Earth scowls. She's like, a midget
And Venus is gloomy, and the rest just seem frigid.
Then she turns silent, remembering that
Until recently everyone was calling her flat.
And worse, gun blasts now make her seem unrefined,
and her complexion is pocked-up from being strip-mined.
Acid rain and pollution are making her bitter
while her wardrobe is so 1994 — litter.
So though she's relieved that her new sister spheres
didn't circle with Sharpies her fat as she feared,
She can sense all the eyes of those heavenly bods
Staring right at her bulging America, like, Omigod.
http://www.asininepoetry.com/hopin/609
MY OYSTER
by Casey
IS it too late to say it's over?
Are we all asleep? Is it nighty-nite?
Is it wrong to drop a tear?
When we feel far from near? Is it queer?
If you lived on the Bay, nothing in your way —
Would life's mileage still be O.K.?
Maybe not — we all have to pay at the Pump, Chumps.
Watch the Stooges and laugh it up!!
Or you'll be sorry.
http://www.asininepoetry.com/hopin/606
such therapy.
to compensate
White House guilty of breaking propaganda law
FOREIGN STAFF
THE Bush administration was guilty of spreading "covert propaganda" through a series of ready-made television "news" packages it sent to broadcasters, a US government watchdog has concluded.
The General Accounting Office (GAO), an arm of Congress, also declared that the adverts breached federal law.
The ready-made news items praised a new law, signed by the president, George Bush, in December, which the White House has said will make it easier for elderly citizens to obtain prescribed medicines.
Some of the features contain pictures of Mr Bush receiving a standing ovation from a crowd as he signed the Medicare law.
The packages were produced by the department of health and human services, but news viewers would have no way of knowing they were watching a government-produced story rather than an independent news report.
They were screened by at least 40 television stations in several states, including Oklahoma and Louisiana. Two of the videos end with the voice of a woman who says: "In Washington, I’m Karen Ryan reporting."
The GAO said the adverts broke laws forbidding public money being used for propaganda purposes.
It added that viewers would "believe that the information came from a non-government source or neutral party".
In a report, the body said the packages were "not strictly factual news stories" and contained "notable omissions and weaknesses".
though, i also have
Your “words of wisdom” could be published on the nearly 5 billion
sauce packets distributed in Taco Bell® restaurants each year!
Enter the Taco Bell® “Share Your Sauce Wisdom” Contest through
June 18th. Up to 12 people will be selected to have their Taco Bell
inspired sayings published on sauce packets in Taco Bell® restaurants
nationwide and will receive a one-year supply of free food.
What is a sauce wisdom?
It’s a Taco Bell-inspired phrase that provides a humorous look at reality. The message should be short (no longer than 70 characters), simple, left of center* and about the little things in life – anything from going on a date to eating a meal.
Here are some examples of current sauce wisdoms:
• Live life one sauce packet at a time
• Use your stomach, nacho mind
• Single Fire sauce seeking friendship, maybe more
• Polly want a taco?
• My other taco is a Chalupa
*The term "left-of-center" is NOT meant to be political in any way. It's simply a way of describing the Taco Bell brand personality and how we think differently about everything we do. It embraces our theme "Think Outside the Bun."
http://www.tacobell.com/wisdom/
but enough is enough. i blame the pain in the neck for this silly-ness.
and i'm going to the doctor wednesday.
chiropractor, actually.
Men's habits, not biology, cause early death
By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY
Listen up, guys: You may be stronger than women, but you die, on average, about seven years earlier.
It might not have to be that way. Increasingly, research implicates behavior, not biology, for men's shorter life spans. Men are more likely to die violently or accidentally, and they're less likely to seek medical care when they don't feel well.
"Men have been taught to be unresponsive to pain and to symptoms of illness," says Jean Bonhomme, a public health doctor at Emory University in Atlanta.
Changing men's health behaviors is nearly as tricky as changing their biology. But Bonhomme, founder of the National Black Men's Health network, is part of a growing effort seeking to narrow the survival gap between men and women.
Last week saw two new developments in the emerging men's health movement: the debut of a peer-reviewed scientific journal, The Journal of Men's Health and Gender, and what sponsors say is the first men's health conference convened in the USA.
Like the conference, the journal's first issue covers a variety of topics, from osteoporosis in men to whether gender influences communication between patients and doctors.
Bonhomme and other supporters of the men's health movement note that what's good for the man is good for the woman.
"Gender-blind medicine serves neither men nor women well," says Donna Stewart, chair of women's health at the University of Toronto. Stewart, who wrote the lead editorial in the new journal's first issue, also serves on its editorial board.
Wanda Jones of the Office of Women's Health at the Department of Health and Human Services spoke on the opening panel at the men's health conference. It was held in Arlington, Va.
"It hurts men as much as it hurts women when we continue to assume that one size fits all," Jones said afterward. "It's time to bring us together to recognize and acknowledge and embrace the differences and be prepared to address them."
That will take more than medical research, Jones says. "Beyond the biological, we've got to look at some of the sociological and anthropological bases. The culture of being female is entirely different from the culture of being male."
Stewart can attest to that. She and her fellow researchers interviewed more than 1,000 hospitalized heart attack patients to see what they most wanted to know about their health. The women wanted to know more about high blood pressure and chest pain and how to take care of themselves.
The men's main question? Whether a heart attack would impair sexual performance.
"We have to remember that men are performance-oriented," Bonhomme says. "We're rewarding men for performance at the expense of their health."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-05-23-mens-health-usat_x.htm
though, even that was written rather ass-hattedly.
SORORITY WORLD
by Dustin Michael
LITTLE Earth leaves the sorority meeting — initiated.
She escaped a hazing, but feels less than elated
at having rushed with the planets in this solar system;
she cringes she'll inevitably pillow fight and kiss them.
Of course Mercury's petite, Earth scowls. She's like, a midget
And Venus is gloomy, and the rest just seem frigid.
Then she turns silent, remembering that
Until recently everyone was calling her flat.
And worse, gun blasts now make her seem unrefined,
and her complexion is pocked-up from being strip-mined.
Acid rain and pollution are making her bitter
while her wardrobe is so 1994 — litter.
So though she's relieved that her new sister spheres
didn't circle with Sharpies her fat as she feared,
She can sense all the eyes of those heavenly bods
Staring right at her bulging America, like, Omigod.
http://www.asininepoetry.com/hopin/609
MY OYSTER
by Casey
IS it too late to say it's over?
Are we all asleep? Is it nighty-nite?
Is it wrong to drop a tear?
When we feel far from near? Is it queer?
If you lived on the Bay, nothing in your way —
Would life's mileage still be O.K.?
Maybe not — we all have to pay at the Pump, Chumps.
Watch the Stooges and laugh it up!!
Or you'll be sorry.
http://www.asininepoetry.com/hopin/606
such therapy.
to compensate
White House guilty of breaking propaganda law
FOREIGN STAFF
THE Bush administration was guilty of spreading "covert propaganda" through a series of ready-made television "news" packages it sent to broadcasters, a US government watchdog has concluded.
The General Accounting Office (GAO), an arm of Congress, also declared that the adverts breached federal law.
The ready-made news items praised a new law, signed by the president, George Bush, in December, which the White House has said will make it easier for elderly citizens to obtain prescribed medicines.
Some of the features contain pictures of Mr Bush receiving a standing ovation from a crowd as he signed the Medicare law.
The packages were produced by the department of health and human services, but news viewers would have no way of knowing they were watching a government-produced story rather than an independent news report.
They were screened by at least 40 television stations in several states, including Oklahoma and Louisiana. Two of the videos end with the voice of a woman who says: "In Washington, I’m Karen Ryan reporting."
The GAO said the adverts broke laws forbidding public money being used for propaganda purposes.
It added that viewers would "believe that the information came from a non-government source or neutral party".
In a report, the body said the packages were "not strictly factual news stories" and contained "notable omissions and weaknesses".
though, i also have
Your “words of wisdom” could be published on the nearly 5 billion
sauce packets distributed in Taco Bell® restaurants each year!
Enter the Taco Bell® “Share Your Sauce Wisdom” Contest through
June 18th. Up to 12 people will be selected to have their Taco Bell
inspired sayings published on sauce packets in Taco Bell® restaurants
nationwide and will receive a one-year supply of free food.
What is a sauce wisdom?
It’s a Taco Bell-inspired phrase that provides a humorous look at reality. The message should be short (no longer than 70 characters), simple, left of center* and about the little things in life – anything from going on a date to eating a meal.
Here are some examples of current sauce wisdoms:
• Live life one sauce packet at a time
• Use your stomach, nacho mind
• Single Fire sauce seeking friendship, maybe more
• Polly want a taco?
• My other taco is a Chalupa
*The term "left-of-center" is NOT meant to be political in any way. It's simply a way of describing the Taco Bell brand personality and how we think differently about everything we do. It embraces our theme "Think Outside the Bun."
http://www.tacobell.com/wisdom/
but enough is enough. i blame the pain in the neck for this silly-ness.
and i'm going to the doctor wednesday.
chiropractor, actually.
Men's habits, not biology, cause early death
By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY
Listen up, guys: You may be stronger than women, but you die, on average, about seven years earlier.
It might not have to be that way. Increasingly, research implicates behavior, not biology, for men's shorter life spans. Men are more likely to die violently or accidentally, and they're less likely to seek medical care when they don't feel well.
"Men have been taught to be unresponsive to pain and to symptoms of illness," says Jean Bonhomme, a public health doctor at Emory University in Atlanta.
Changing men's health behaviors is nearly as tricky as changing their biology. But Bonhomme, founder of the National Black Men's Health network, is part of a growing effort seeking to narrow the survival gap between men and women.
Last week saw two new developments in the emerging men's health movement: the debut of a peer-reviewed scientific journal, The Journal of Men's Health and Gender, and what sponsors say is the first men's health conference convened in the USA.
Like the conference, the journal's first issue covers a variety of topics, from osteoporosis in men to whether gender influences communication between patients and doctors.
Bonhomme and other supporters of the men's health movement note that what's good for the man is good for the woman.
"Gender-blind medicine serves neither men nor women well," says Donna Stewart, chair of women's health at the University of Toronto. Stewart, who wrote the lead editorial in the new journal's first issue, also serves on its editorial board.
Wanda Jones of the Office of Women's Health at the Department of Health and Human Services spoke on the opening panel at the men's health conference. It was held in Arlington, Va.
"It hurts men as much as it hurts women when we continue to assume that one size fits all," Jones said afterward. "It's time to bring us together to recognize and acknowledge and embrace the differences and be prepared to address them."
That will take more than medical research, Jones says. "Beyond the biological, we've got to look at some of the sociological and anthropological bases. The culture of being female is entirely different from the culture of being male."
Stewart can attest to that. She and her fellow researchers interviewed more than 1,000 hospitalized heart attack patients to see what they most wanted to know about their health. The women wanted to know more about high blood pressure and chest pain and how to take care of themselves.
The men's main question? Whether a heart attack would impair sexual performance.
"We have to remember that men are performance-oriented," Bonhomme says. "We're rewarding men for performance at the expense of their health."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-05-23-mens-health-usat_x.htm
though, even that was written rather ass-hattedly.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2004-05-26 12:20 pm (UTC)Bonhomme and other supporters of the men's health movement note that what's good for the man is good for the woman.
one might think that if you're going to follow this frame of logic, you'd at least look into the reverse.
no subject
Date: 2004-05-27 08:54 am (UTC)That makes it a lot easier to focus medical research dollars on men, I presume.
If the "men's health movement" wants to benefit men, is should work on social conditioning to stop men from being such idiots - and a lot of male idiocy really is culturally based.
no subject
Date: 2004-05-27 09:01 am (UTC)it's their mothers' faults.
women need to raise their sons better.
then all shall be right in the land.