All I can say, is finally!
A German company has announced that it will be developing the world’s first spray-on condom.
The way it works is that you insert your, uh, ’schadenpenis’ into a can, and then, paying special attention to apply a nice even coat you, uh, …oh forget it. Read about at Slate here.
And for more from those whacky Germans, check out this Tale of Two Penises.
This post kicks off a new category on “Sitting Down to Stand Up”: the Environment.
In a previous post, I had labeled an environment-related piece as “Politics”, however an amazing CBC Fifth Estate documentary called The Denial Machine has changed my mind.
In The Denial Machine, master political propagandist Frank Luntz, an environmentalism “convert” urges people to uncouple the environment from politics. And if anyone should know how the environment and politics have been coupled, it’s Frank Luntz.
Luntz polled test audiences’ immediate reactions to certain key environmental words and authored a memo that taught the Bush administration how to use Orwellian double-speak to dance around the whole issue. Now, for instance, instead of Global Warming, conservatives use the friendlier, more gradual sounding moniker, “Climate Change”.
(Luntz’ memo btw, is a real eye-opener. Stomach churning stuff that has, without question, informed the strategy of Canada’s current Anti-Environment Minister, the “honorable” Rona Ambrose.)
In the doc (watch it online) Luntz says:
If you really care about the environment […] take it out of the political sphere. Take it out of trying to beat each other up over the head. And be honest, and do not yell, and focus on solutions that will actually make a difference.
I agree. As long as preventing the earth from becoming hostile to life is a partisan issue, we’ve got trouble.
OK, ramble/preamble complete. Now go over to Slate and read about how the U.S. Supreme Court is going to be deciding what responsibility the EPA actually has in trying to stop Global Warming. We’re living in pretty interesting times.
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