76. OMG she is going to be sober in no time...Ok who am i kidding. Junkies like this are only sober...well never.

Posted at 7:10PM on Jun 1st 2007 by silver matter

77. By: William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

For the last week, you've read the latest news - and my latest predictions - about one of the biggest evils on the American medical landscape: Mass vaccinations.

As you'll recall, one of my extrapolations of this false panacea of medicine had to do with a new vaccine that's all the rage - one designed to prevent most cases of HPV (genital warts) in young women, along with the subsequent development of cervical cancer this viral infection is linked to...

My argument is that while it's all fine and good to prevent infections of a common STD and its often-cancerous aftermath, there's a "point of diminishing returns" in the equation if the vaccine gives young women a false sense of security about the safety of sex. This may expose them to all kinds of other diseases, some deadly (and getting deadlier).

But there are some "wild card" factors in this equation, too - things that could either mitigate the urge among young, naïve people to copulate with abandon OR temper that very same urge: Things like schooling, parenting, and one other influence I alluded to in the last Daily Dose...

I'm talking about popular culture.

If you've been a reader of mine for any length of time at all, you know I've long lamented the steady decline in the themes and messages in a lot of modern cultural influences - things like movies, TV, magazines, music (if you can call it that) and the over-publicized antics of spoiled celebrities. Now here's how this dovetails into the vaccine equation...

In the absence of strong, morally principled parenting - and schooling that minds the lines between what's proper curriculum and what's the responsibility of those parents to teach their kids - young, sexually curious adults are taking their cues on how to act from all the wrong places: Rap "music" lyrics and videos, movies, mom's Cosmopolitan mags, and whatever they learn from predators that prowl Internet chat-rooms and the MySpace profiles all their hyper-sexed, Ritalin-addicted friends are posting...

What's worse, they also learn how to act from what they're seeing Paris, Britney, Lindsay, and all the other pop-tarts doing on TV! (If you don't know who these people are, or are clueless about MySpace, you need to plug in to understand your kids and grandkids - but be forewarned, the journey's not for the faint of heart).

Think today's kids aren't REALLY so impressionable that they'd take their cues from a bunch of spoiled, talent-less Hollywood party-girls and gangster-rap stars?

According to recent UK Daily Mail article, researchers asked a random survey of 1,500 British kids aged 10 and under (the answers would be similar for American kids, I promise you), "What do you think is the very best thing in the world?"

Ranked from 1 to 10 by greatest number of responses, their answers were:

1) Being a celebrity
2) Good looks
3) Being rich
4) Being healthy
5) Pop music
6) Families
7) Friends
8) Nice food
9) Watching movies

And last on the list...

10) God

Take a look at the top three answers: Celebrity, beauty, and wealth. And also notice how "pop music" ranks above family, friends, and God...

Still think kids' sensibilities about life, love, sex, and what's important aren't being shaped heavily by hyper-sexed popular culture?

Bottom line: With STDs, sexual objectification, and victimization rampant - and with schools promoting sex as though it's civic duty - it's more important than ever for parents to set strong boundaries that instill sexual temperance and age-appropriate behavior in their kids.

Instead, we have parents steering children, either by first-hand example or by tacit approval of their over-eroticized young lifestyles, into having risky sex early and often...

If only we could come up with a vaccine against THIS kind of "cancer."

(Still) lamenting over-sexed parenting,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

Posted at 11:28PM on Jun 1st 2007 by Parents Need to Know

78. Is it just me, or does LiLo not have any real friends who aren't interested in her limelight? Any one who is her friend, they'd be trying to reign her in. True, no one can make anyone do anything they don't want, but at least someone should be trying.

Of course, they might be, but that would not make good media now, would it?

LiLo, ,LOOK OUT!!

Posted at 12:14PM on Jun 3rd 2007 by Brusimm (Bruce S.)

79. THE WORST ENABLER IS HER OWN MOTHER! THEN WE GO TO THE HOLLYWOOD INDUSTRY AND ALL THE SWEETHEARTS ALMOST GETTING RUN DOWN TO TAKE THEIR PICTURES. IF EVERYONE WOULD STOP LOOKING AT LINDSAY, PARIS AND BRIT AND BUYING PAPERS WITH THEM IN IT IT MIGHT HELP. ALTHOUGH IT DOES SEEM THEY ARE AS WACKY AS THE THREE GIRLS. OH I'M NOT LEAVING OFF NICOLE AND THE REST OF THEM...REHAB ISNE'T DOING IT FOR ANY OF THEM,I THINK THEY ALL HAVE A DEATH WISH. IF NOT ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS THINK"ANNA NICOLE".
AS ELIZABETH TAYLOR SAID" IF THEY DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO SEE THEM STAY HOME"! I COULDN'T AGREE MORE, LET THEM DRINK AND DRUG IN THERE OWN HOMES,INSTEAD OF BEING UPSET WHEN A PIX. OF THEM IS TAKIN FALLING DOWN DRUNK, OR WITH THEIR LEGS OPEN AND NO UNDERWEAR ON.
I THINK THEY ARE ALL DISGUSTING,ALONG WITH ROSIE. ONLY DIFFERANCE THEY ARE ALL BONES FROM TOO MUCH BOOZE AND DRUGS AND SHE'S A FATSO FROM ALL HER BEER,HER MOUTH ALONE TAKES UP 50 LBS. OF HER.

Posted at 12:20PM on Jun 4th 2007 by gigi

80. THE ONE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR BEING THE WORST FRIEND TO ANYONE IN HOLLYWOOD IS PARIS. SHE SETS THEM ALL UP AND AFTER THEY MAKE TOTAL FOOLS OF THEMSELVES SHE DUMPS THEM LOOKING LIKE THE TRASH THEY ARE ACTING LIKE AND SHE IS. SHE MAY HAVE MONEY BUT SHE DOESN'T HAVE CLASS. IMO HER MOTHER SHOULD BE LOCKED UP WITH HER,AFTER OFFENDING THE JUDGE. ALL WANNABE MOMMY'S, HOW DISGUSTING THEY ARE!

Posted at 12:25PM on Jun 4th 2007 by gigi

81. HEY LOHAN UR NEXT TO SIT WITH PARIS ENJOY IT !!!

Posted at 9:25PM on Jun 8th 2007 by julie

82. Do you want the truth and a great laugh?
We all know Ms. Lindsay will getting hammered on her special day and the only thing she is missing is a shirt that says "What happens in Vegas stays on your Police Record" or "I love Dealers." She has been in rehab countless times and these shirts would make a great gift! Check out www.drunkinvegas.com.
I swear Ms. Lindsey could be this lines poster child.

Posted at 9:00PM on Jun 16th 2007 by Wayne