Maybe the people I know are anomalies, but none of my friends seems to dread going to the dentist as much as I do. I don't understand: to me it's self-evidently terrible. But if I have to spell it out, so be it:
First off, I hate the guilt trip you have to endure each time. Have you been flossing? Well then, have you been flossing the right way every day? How many times a day do you brush? Twice, well that's the minimum—if that's all you want to do it's your decision.
More than that, though, is the pain. Forget drilling or root canals. I'm talking about the run-of-the-mill cleaning pain. You know something is wrong when you're wondering, "do all women have hands this strong?" Basically, you sit there and have somebody scrape your mouth to hell and you have to submit obediently.
So to summarize, sitting down for forty-five minutes and being told what you're doing wrong with your life while your mouth is passioned up worse than Christ and waterboarded like Guantanamo is not my idea of a good time.
Labels: dentists, healthcare
So this sounds a little bit like a mock trial by ordeal to me. And people say history doesn't repeat itself!
The critique of Deltano's performance at Dominion High was conducted by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States. It included criticism of his decision to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of condoms against HIV by dangling a cinderblock over a male student's genital area.
("Christian Sex-Ed Lesson Criticized"—via)
My favorite part of all this is that some sick self-righteous (I mean, "pious") bastard actually gets paid (from tax dollars) to threaten to crush teenagers' genitalia.
Labels: christianity, education, fud, history, religion, sham
The Show with Ze Frank is over today. Take care, sportsracers. Maybe I'll see you in the ORG. I'm Afshin. And now that Ze isn't thinking so we don't have to, we have to do it for ourselves.
In other news, TimesSelect is available for free for people with .edu email addresses.
Labels: internet, media
Maybe I haven't been paying enough attention, but this is the first time I can remember seeing an MSN advertisement on Google:
With the increasing animosity between the two Leviathans, how does this fit in the grand strategy?
Labels: advertising, business, internet
