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The Age Of Apocalypse
 Posted 11/3/2009 6:00:00 PM
Back when the greatest generation was in its early 20's the providers of popular culture decided to release a torrent of films and television programs that depicted nuclear war. I think it had something to do with the rise to power of two great leaders: Reagan in the States and Thatcher in England. The chattering creative classes had decided that Ronald and Maggie were going to bring an end to the planet once and for all in the name of Western Capitalism and we would all, dancing as we were to New Romance music with Flock of Seagulls hair, be convinced that this was the end.
1983 and 1984 were the years when our televisions were filled with images of nuclear holocaust. Who started it? Didn't matter. Buildings burned like tinder and every bit of stock footage from 1950's U.S. military nuclear testing was pressed into the propaganda battle. Today's ...
Get A Grippe
Posted 10/28/2009 12:00:00 AM
Come April when flu season is as distant a memory as the first Leaf win of the season and Toronto prepares to pick another team to cheer through the playoffs, we'll be cringing at some of the response to the H1N1 crisis or, as I'll call it now, SARS 2.
This is getting ridiculous. The death of the 13 year old all-Canadian hockey player in Etobicoke seems to have kicked the cork out of the bottle. Now the papers are interviewing Jason Blake about the family's loss. And never mind the sudden need to list the B and C level NHL players who've been diagnosed. Now we need our sports reports to lead with the butcher's bill? How many times over the years have we been told a player didn't dress because of the flu? Get a grip. Or grippe.
Overheated parents have been overwhelming the Sick Kids ER this ...
Blinded Me With Non-Science
Posted 10/27/2009 3:00:00 PM
Nothing makes me happier than knowing that Suzanne Sommers and Jenny McCarthy are now the go-to people for the media when it comes to public health. Whether it's Suzanne's comments that Patrick Swayze didn't die from pancreatic cancer, he died from the treatment or McCarthy's insistence that her son's autism (which may not be part of the spectrum disorder) was caused by his diptheria vaccination.
I've been a fan of Playboy since I found my first copy hidden under some boxes in the basement (nice try, Dad) in 1968. I never thought that Hugh Hefner's monthly thrust through the puritanical American barrier that sex is bad would become the training ground for the New England Journal of Medicine.
Who needs a BSc, and MD and years of internship and residency when I can just flash my tits and hope that Adobe can dither the imperfections in Photoshop?
H1N1 mania will ...
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