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Crazy lady, coming through

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And no, I’m not talking about Diane Francis. It’s me I’m slightly concerned about. I’m on a jogging kick and so I head out to hit the trails daily now with my iPod. Very Nike commercial-esque if you ask me. As I go, I listen to music. And who can help but sing along to some of these hits. I’m the jogging, singing backup for Boney M. (Long time ago in Bethlehem…) Good times.

Then this morning I got into the office early and started the day by singing carols loudly over the phone to my nieces. I’m told that I got a standing ovation or the rough equivalent thereof from a baby who is not yet quite standing.

The thing is I am quite enthusiastic about some of this music. So an early question (not the first one, but an early one) when I Meet my Maker will be Why such enthusiasm, but very little talent?

Musings for the morning.

Even China doesn’t want the one child policy anymore

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Beijing tries to put brakes on plummeting birth rates, reads the headline in today’s Vancouver Sun:

Wang Weijia and her husband grew up surrounded by propaganda posters lecturing them that “Mother Earth is too tired to sustain more children” and “One more baby means one more tomb.” They learned the lesson so well that when Shanghai government officials, alarmed by the city’s low birth rate and aging population, abruptly changed course this summer and began encouraging young couples to have more than one child, their reaction was instant and firm: No way.

“We have already given all our time and energy for just one child. We have none left for a second,” said Wang, 31, a human resources administrator with an eight-month-old son.

More than 30 years after China’s one-child policy was introduced, creating two generations of notoriously chubby, spoiled only children affectionately nicknamed “little emperors,” a population crisis is looming in the country.

Calling on Canadian doctors to restore their integrity

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Perhaps some Canadian doctors will be inspired by Dr. Shim in South Korea to actually help pregnant women:

Dr Shim: The practice of abortion undermines the government’s effort to improve facilities for deliveries and thus discourages the efforts of healthcare personnel to improve the environment for expecting mothers. As well, systemic support for unmarried or disabled mothers is disregarded. Accordingly, the human rights of pregnant mothers are infringed. …

Although I do not have any religious convictions, I feel that we must restore our own personal legal and ethical validity before we take a stand and ask the government and the society to improve. It seems to us that restoring the integrity of just one medical doctor will be the first step toward the correction of a distorted medical environment.

I think I can, I think I can, I think can!

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I think I can ignore these gender-crazed “scholars” when they denounce Thomas the Tank. But do read the article about it, because the whole thing is quite humourous, starting with the lede:

A researcher has blown the whistle [Editor’s Note: Toot, Toot! All aboard! Now nowhere in the article does it indicate that the whistle-blowing researchers said that. But I can imagine that if you are gender-dissecting Thomas the Tank and need motivation, that might be one way to get some. Chugga chugga, chugga chugga, chugga chugga–TOOT, TOOT!] on Thomas the Tank Engine, saying the classic series was pushing “conservative political ideology” on to kids.

As a side note, I have learned that the Little Engine that Could and Thomas the Tank are not related. Not even cousins. Interesting. Further musings lead me to believe that The Little Engine that Could is also foisting conservative ideology on children. And then I wonder: was the research grant not large enough to flesh out important details like this? Hmmmm.

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Brigitte is no expert on which children’s tank engine is more misogynist than the others: But she did like this piece.  Especially:

The ridiculous part (not that the whole Thomas-as-misogynist thing isn’t more than a little ridiculous in itself) is that the professor in question, Shauna Hilton, has a three-year-old daughter who loves Thomas. Hilton — a political scientist at the University of Alberta, Augustana — seems to be of the view that it’s good that her daughter watches the show and plays with Thomas trains and toys. She just thinks it’s important that she talks to her daughter about the episodes and points out the ways in which they are sexist, anachronistic and potentially damaging. Oh, Mommy, what fun!

For some reason, I saw a connection between the above and this piece about how the British government is considering a ban on parents who smoke in front of their children to protect the little ones against the, um, well, obviously to guard against the, ah, something or other having to do with parents who may, you never know, indulge in habits that aren’t government-approved.

Is it me, or are people worried about the wrong things?

No, Laura, not all Canadians think this way

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Right. So I was wrong about Diane Francis, very, very wrong. Far be it from me to not admit when I’ve made a mistake. I said she wasn’t an idiot, but in this interview with Laura Ingraham she displays a good dose of idiocy with a splash of just plain ole’ sad.

By the way, I do love Laura. This interview doesn’t show it, but she’s actually a very funny talk show host. And funny, non-shrill women in the public arena truly are a gift.

Paying good money to screw up your life

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You could be offended by ads for this agency that helps people cheat. Or you could simply marvel at how dumb people are. I’m against the ads, but I have a hard time getting steamed. That cheating on a spouse is bad is something everyone agrees on for the explosive, agonizing, emotional problems it creates. On other marriage-related topics you won’t find two people on the street with the same opinion. But this one?

Cheating. There ain’t no rehabilitation for that word. Everything in us balks at the idea of somehow saying that’s a good thing, or could help a marriage, or would do anything other than tremendous harm.

I say Sign Up Idiots! Bring it on. I’m waiting for the young entreprising computer programmer wearing pajamas in his basement who hacks into the system and reveals who all is on the list. It’s bound to happen. Then we can take the four million some odd “members” and ship them off to an uninhabited Arctic Island (though I hesitate to foist these losers on the polar bears). It’s merely a question of which island, and whether they get to take a coat.

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