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Will condoms kill porn?

mark — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:07:56 +0000

Right now, in the porn capital of the world, California’s San Fernando Valley, “new adult video is shot every 45 minutes, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year”. That’s a lot of doin’ it. And a lot of bodily fluids to be swapped, and a lot of possibility for disease.

The porn industry has always regulated itself with regards to testing and STDs, but now a bill is being brought before the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to force the use of condoms in adult films, ostensibly on the basis that “employees” are at risk.

What kind of effect will this have on the industry as a whole? Will this bill run porn companies out of California? Or – considering the tough anti-porn-creation laws in other states – would it kill the porn industry completely?

Approved “vaccine” for prostate cancer

mark — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:35:52 +0000

I was really excited when I saw this article about a vaccine for prostate cancer, because who doesn’t want to avoid getting sick? And avoid cancer even more?! And prostate cancer just sounds…. Well, I tip my hat to you gentlemen who have had it. Doesn’t sound like fun.

But after reading the article, in which it’s claimed, “Clinical trials showed that the treatment extended the lives of patients by four months.”, I was less than ready to sign up. Is that really a “vaccine”? Sounds like more testing and development are in order.

Some areas consider boycotting Arizona

mark — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:28:40 +0000

Los Angeles county, San Francisco, and possibly even the entire state of California are considering boycotting Arizona due to the state’s harsh new immigration laws. What would this affect? Tourism, conventions, trucking, possible manufacturing, and any other state business that originates in Arizona.

The Arizona state leaders don’t seem to think this will cause a problem.

Need to Know: The History of 420

mark — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:26:50 +0000

I was looking all over for good articles on how 420 came to represent pot, and just when I was getting frustrated, I found this bad boy on The Huffington Post. Read it – it’s the best online article detailing the history of 420 that I’ve found.

Did I do that?

mark — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:03:00 +0000

Looks like that rascally Internet’s been up to it’s old tricks. But don’t let the man get you down; Chuck Norris is still kicking ass.

Eliot Spitzer to take over the world?

mark — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:39:49 +0000

Now that Eliot Spitzer has begun his comeback into the world of decency (ha), it seems that he hasn’t taken his eye off the world of politics. In his words, “he sees a chance to become a national force”.

Don’t know about y’all, but that sends a shiver down my spine.

Image from the Fortune excerpt of Peter Elkind’s new book, Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, due out April 20.

The Catholic Church equates recent bad press with anti-Semitism

mark — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:06:19 +0000

Really? Sounds like someone’s a little self-important.

But seriously, a senior priest in the Church made statements on Good Friday saying that the recent attacks on the Church and the Pope remind him of the “more shameful aspects of anti-Semitism”.

Yeah…that seems about as unequal an analogy as I’ve ever heard. A little bad press doesn’t come close to the horrors of Anti-Semitism.

First Print Media, now Photojournalism?

mark — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:33:21 +0000

And we thought the print media industry was bad – the same decline is happening within the photojournalism industry.

Is technology ruining these industries? Which industries is technology tearing up? Which are it helping?

Check out Keyhole Photo for great examples of photojournalism, wedding photography, and more.

What’s the Pope’s true role in the pedophilia scandal?

mark — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:20:22 +0000

In case you hadn’t heard, a pedophilia scandal is currently rocking Europe and the Catholic Church – and it’s considerably bigger than the one that hit the US in the early late 1990’s and early 2000’s. In addition, the pope is being cited as a conspirator because of his former role as the Archbishop of Munich and the head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office.

Whoops! What to do now?….Deny, Deny, Deny!

Sarah Palin as Documentary Host?

mark — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:16:10 +0000

Yep, it’s true. Discovery has bought the rights to the documentary show cooked up by Palin and Mark Burnett, so we’ll soon be entertained by images of Alaska’s natural beauty “as told by one of the state’s proudest daughters”.

Well, I sure can’t wait for Sarah Palin’s Alaska. Yeah.