how we can change the majority of people's opinion on the awesomeness of being rich and powerful.

Since there's no inherent link between "rich and powerful" and wasteful or destructive, I don't see why one would need to change that opinion. Not that I think it's remotely possible, but it is probably more useful to address being wasteful or destructive no matter how rich or powerful you are. No reason you can't be rich, powerful, thoughtful, improving society, and sexy as all get out.

At least not if you are Newman or Redford

Zap2it tells me that the network up fronts are in May. This is something I consistently forget. However, haven't most series committed to a season finale by this point? Why am I convinced that SPN, for instance, traditionally knows, once it got off the bubble, what kind of season-ender they're filming? Have I gotten used to the luxury of early announcement? How can I forget this every single year about every show, and still consider myself obsessive?

Or maybe this is what old and obsessive feels like...

Anyway, first meeting over, millions of emails sent during, and now I'm going to collapse.

Fuck ita ! You need a pain specialist who has your back with the ER.

Congrats, sj!

I hope your pain specialist can make the meeting and, whether or not he does, that the ER meeting ends up not screwing you over, ita.

I read that Cracked article and thought it started off well and then sort of went off the rails toward the end. I think that the author underestimated the wide variation of sexual drive in both sexes, as well as totally discounting non-heterosexuality completely. Did Alan Turing really break Nazi codes so he could get sexual access to women's bodies? Really? I don't think so. Frederick the Great might also have had something to say about how his need to get busy with the ladies drove his activities.

Fox News Doctor Dude: The Hunger Games Will Make Teen Girls Violent, Unfeminine

The Hunger Games … adds to the toxic psychological forces it identifies, rather than reducing them. …

It is an entertainment product of complete fiction and great potency, given its intense level of fantasy and violence. As such, it only conveys young people closer to “expressing” in a virtual format their powerful and primitive instincts (potentially kindling their desire to truly express such instincts) while conveying them further from their daily realities and a little further still from their real selves.

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Other than entertaining millions and millions of teenagers and making millions and millions of dollars, the net result of The Hunger Games is likely to be:

1) Females will be further distanced from their traditional feminine characteristics that … suggested they were not being real “girls” if they were extremely physically violent.

2) Young teens and many pre-teens will be awakened to the fact that they are capable of extreme violence, given the right set of circumstances.

3) A few psychologically vulnerable teens—who would have come to no good anyhow—may be inspired to replicate the film’s violence.

(All quotes from the Fox Doctor dude.)

Yay Lee on the port removal!

But fie, fuck, and a bunch of other expletives at the ER doctor panel. Makes me so fucking angry. They better meet your needs, ita !

Congrats to you and TCG, sj!! I hope the move is smooth and swift.

The latest in "Oh my God will no one think of the children?!?"

'Drunken Gummies' or 'Boozy Bears': Latest Teen Alcohol Craze

Colorful gummy bears are being transformed into "boozy bears" or "drunken gummies," alcohol-laden candies that kids as young as middle-school-aged may be eating right under their teachers' noses.

Florida health officials are warning schools about the latest craze -- kids soaking gummies in alcohol and bringing them to school in clear plastic bags.

Apparently the gummy "worms" work the best for the purpose. Officials from the Lake County Safe Climate Coalition, a nonprofit group that targets youth substance abuse, have experimented themselves.

"Of course, we tried it," said the group's executive director, Debi MacIntyre. "You lay a couple of them in the bottom of a pan and the alcohol is gone by morning. They are long and skinny, and they actually plump up quite big."

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Two Florida teens told ABC News' Fort Myers, Fla., affiliate, WZVN, also known as ABC News-7, that drunken gummies are the latest trend in hiding alcohol use.

"I have to say they're pretty good," said Adam, 17.

It's the latest trend! Two Florida teens said so!

Also, I think I need 750 ml of vodka and a few pounds of gummy bears.