| Sunday, January 31, 2010 | ||
| Argentina's Answer to Viagra: Pork..!? | ||
Argentine President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, as of yet not a renowned sexologist, has recommended pork, from her personal experience, as an alternative to Viagra. She is, of course, just trying to share her brilliant realization with the citizens of the world at large, those who are not as fortunate as herself to have had what she describes as a weekend in which “things went very well” with the first man, after eating barbecued pork.  Oh, perhaps I should mention that Argentina is the world's third largest beef exporter and Argentinians eats more beef, per capita, than any other people. But with beef prices on the rise in the last few years, Ms. Fernandez's government has been promoting pork in an attempt to diversify the meat industry and keep her constituents from placing her head on the proverbial hog roast. The president, in all her wisdom and fulfillment, added “Trying it doesn't cost anything, so let's give it a go”. I would beg to differ. Promoting your pork (or beef, for that matter) costs the customer more and more each year. It costs the health care system (ever heard of swine flu, foot-and-mouth disease or the cumulative consumption effects of antibiotic–laden meat?) It costs the rain forests. And, for our purposes, it costs your healthy sex life. Meat is packed with saturated fats which raise cholesterol levels and block the arteries. That leads to to erectile dysfunction and heart problems of the kind that can kill you. Mind you, it can all be dealt with. You can have your pork, then take viagra to get the big guy back into shape, and when your heart gives in, they can rewire your arteries, so you'll be bedridden and have no need for functional sex organs. But this gives you plenty leisure and freedom to lie back and eat more pork. Hey, don't knock it – its good for the industry. |
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| Saturday, January 16, 2010 | ||
| Strength & Love to the People of Haiti | ||
It's horrible to wake up to a slow, restful Saturday morning and know that on the other side of the world, millions of people are in chaos. Its been four days and nights and this is just the very beginning.  Haiti has never been an easy place to live. Though it has the grandeur of being the only state that gained independence from a victorious slave rebellion, this land is troubled by chronic tropical diseases, political evil and it sits like the cherry on the top of the fault line between two major tectonic plates. Haiti, even in “quiet” times, has a viciously high maternal death rate (670 deaths per 100,000 as compared with 9/100,000 in industrialized countries). The thing about pregnancy and birth is that they don't have consideration for the fact that the country lies in ruins. On the contrary – injury, sickness, stress and loss can complicate a pregnancy and induce a high risk birth. Most mothers will swear that a regular birth feels like a 7 on the Richter scale when they are the epicenter. I can only assume that birthing during or in the aftermath of a major quake is beyond any level of comprehension. The Dinah Project wishes the children, women and men of Haiti - especially the newborns and their moms - strength and good health. We can't be there to lend them our hands and share our basic commodities, but Google has set up an amazing crisis response which can guide you in ways of contributing support. |
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| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | ||
| Farewell, Miep Gies (1909-2010) | ||
Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who hid the family of Anne Frank, who enabled her diarizing by providing paper and who saved her diary once the family was taken away by the Gestapo in 1944, died on January 11th at the grand age of 100.  With Miep's help, The Diary of Anne Frank, published in 1947, is the second best selling non-fiction book of all time. Maybe the reason that it is only second is that it doesn't have as much sex in it as the number one on the list, the Bible. But the world famous diary of the young teenager who shared her adolescence so expressively, was not all that innocent, if you can read between her European understatement. Read about sex education à la Anne Frank. Anyway, for the wonderful woman who lived to see it all and left us this week, all that remains to be said is “thank you”. |
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