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Swimsuit edition ill-timed

Lord knows I have many other things to think about that are of more importance, but this one stumps me every year.

Maybe it's just me, but has anyone else ever questioned the timing of the release of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition each year? It always comes out right before Valentine's Day. This may be unintentional, I'll admit. I have to think that the guys (and gals) at SI think that in the dead of winter is the best time to bless millions of men all over the world with the beauties it features in warm, exotic locations wearing cute little swimsuits (or parts of swimsuits). I get that.

What I don't get is why you would do that right at the time where millions of American women are hoping beyond hope that their significant others might express their love and passion for them on Valentine's Day. Now I know, V day is really a Hallmark creation, completely commercial and bonanza for the flower and candy industries.

But the reality is that for MANY women it is the one day each year when their man (or woman, I guess) makes a little effort to find a way to say "I love you" in a way that he wouldn't at any other time of the year. It is a day to celebrate love and focus on the person with whom we are in a romantic relationship. A day where women, especially, revel in the attention and hope to be showered with gestures of appreciation, romance, passion, and the like.

And then along comes the dreaded SI swimsuit edition.

Nothing like a media blitz of young, gorgeous, apparently perfect women wearing very little, rolling around in the sand and surf on an exotic beach somewhere to pull the attention of a man away from the woman he would otherwise be paying attention to.

That's what gets me.

My great-grandmother once told me that it doesn't matter where a man gets his appetite as long as he comes home for dinner (seriously, my great-grandmother told me that!), but couldn't SI wait until the week AFTER Valentine's Day?

Just a thought.

Federally Funded Teen Pregnancy

I just read something that perplexes me...although I shouldn't be surprised. The first paragraph is rather confusing in how it reads. I'm SURE the writer didn't mean to say that there are actually "federally funded teen pregnancy" organizations. But even getting beyond the poor choice of sentence structure...my blood still boils:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration, to the consternation of its critics, has picked the medical director of an organization that opposes premarital sex, contraception and abortion to lead the office that oversees federally funded teen pregnancy, family planning and abstinence programs.

The appointment of Eric Keroack, a Marblehead, Massachusetts, obstetrician and gynecologist, to oversee the federal Office of Population Affairs and its $283 million annual budget has angered family-planning advocates.

Keroack currently is medical director of A Woman's Concern, a Christian nonprofit. The Dorchester, Massachusetts-based organization runs six centers in the state that offer free pregnancy testing, ultrasounds and counseling.

It also works to "help women escape the temptation and violence of abortion," according to its statement of faith. And it opposes contraception, saying its use increases out-of-wedlock pregnancy and abortion rates.

Now, I know I'm not alone in thinking that it is wrong (at least from my point of view) that someone who opposes contraception should be leading an organization charged with the oversight of the "Office of Population." I honestly can't believe that there are still people in this world that oppose contraception AT ALL, but they certainly shouldn't be leading an agency such as this. ARE THEY NUTS? Oh, wait...yes, in fact...they are.

Read more reaction by Melinda Henneberg on the Huffington Post.

Celebrity Look-alikes

Thanks to Kristi Wells for this idea. This was really fun and amazingly easy! They say you should run several photos through to get the closest match...it's a great time waster when you need one. I love how they mostly match you to the beautiful people. Nobody wants to be told that they look like Rosanne Barr or Jerry Springer or something like that. Try it! Just go to MyHeritage and check it out. It uses face recognition technology to analyze any photo that you upload...

Enjoy! Happy Friday.

Young Man! Pick yourself off the ground!

Bench Warrant Issued For Village People 'Policeman'

How the mighty have fallen.  Here is the story from the KTVU website.

The news is sweeping the blogosphere. Check out what  Life Hurts has to say.

SAN MATEO  -- A man who helped make famous the songs "YMCA" and "In the Navy" failed to appear for his sentencing Thursday in San Mateo County Superior Court on charges stemming from a July arrest in Daly City. Victor Willis, 54, the original policeman from the musical group the Village People, was pulled over around 11 p.m. on July 11 for an unspecified traffic violation in the area of Bayshore Boulevard and Geneva Avenue, according to police reports. After being stopped, Willis was found to be in possession of 3.23 grams of cocaine and a loaded .45-gauge, semi-automatic handgun, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's office.

Oh, Victor. Say it ain't so. What happend to you?

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