Monday, June 01, 2009 - Posts
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Newsweek has an article out debunking much of the health advice shilled by celebrities on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Most famously, Jenny McCarthy has been on Oprah several times claiming
that vaccines caused her son's autism (the vaccine/autism link has been
scientifically disproven). But, more entertaining is the anti-aging regime that Suzanne Somers promoted in January:
Each morning, the 62-year-old actress and self-help
author rubs a potent estrogen cream into the skin on her arm. She
smears progesterone on her other arm two weeks a month. And once a day,
she uses a syringe to inject estrogen directly into her vagina ... Next
come the pills. She swallows 60 vitamins and...
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It was horrible. We were driving onto the grounds and the protesters were there with their ugly pictures yelling at us. Just yelling. Then we got inside and it was calm, very professional. Those people are miracle workers, every last one of them, from the littlest nurse to the admin guys. They had to know their lives were in danger, and there was security everywhere, but they just wanted to reassure us... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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The murder of Dr. George Tiller in his church this Sunday sent a special chill down my spine; not the kind one gets when someone young, or important, or defenseless is gunned down in cold blood, but the kind one gets when domestic terror strikes. I don't mean to be too alarmist about the first killing of an abortion provider since 1998. Of course, any such assassination is illegal and wrong. But the lawlessness and vigilantism of this particular murder—or, as the anti-abortion zealout who allegedly shot him might put it, judgment—is very worrisome. Is total anarchy just around the corner?... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Dana, on your recommendation, I saw the scream-filled, sharply funny Drag Me to Hell this weekend, and I didn't think the protagonist was punished for being a striving woman. I thought she was punished for trying to raise up from her humble farm girl origins... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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As Nina pointed out last week, and the Times pointed out over the weekend, Disney's The Princess and The Frog, its first animated feature to star a black heroine, Tiana, is already controversial, and it doesn't come out until December. Watching the trailer for it on the big screen over the weekend (it's playing before Pixar's totally awesome Up!) got me thinking about another potential source of contention: Tiana's voice... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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