Shonky Awards!
Choice Magazine, the Australian people’s watchdog, gives out Shonky Awards to a few products every year after rigorously testing them. Every product awarded is the worst of the lot – Reminds me of the Darwin Awards. Some are silly like Toblerone chocolate bars listing 16 servings on the box, but only have 15 pieces inside. Some are costly like the Samsung SW70SP washer that use so much water that they score 0% in water efficiency. But the one that really caught my eye? Nature’s Way kids homeopathic ‘medicine’.

If adults want to trust their lives to a ‘medicine’ with nothing in it – but the placebo effect – fine. Take your sugar pills. Take your tinctures. But don’t don’t give such crap to your children. Children, especially young ones, are more susceptible to disease and health problems.

In my mind, this is the exact same thing as being a Christian Scientist. Different woo, same effect. Replace filtered water with anointing your kid with olive oil and praying over him/her. Crap like this gets people killed. We need to keep children safe – even from their parents at times.

Since homeopathy is not actually medicine and it is shit as candy, there is no reason it should be sold. It does as much good as thinking a tic-tac will help you, but for a lot more money. Moreso, by giving that sugar pill to your kid, you are almost certainly keeping real medicine out of your child’s mouth. Good on Choice Magazine for keeping homeopathy in the spotlight.

Catholics Against R74
I found an OP-ED article in the Seattle Times today stating that “No one denies the close and intimate bond experienced by same-sex couples. However, it simply is not the same thing as marriage because by its very nature it cannot produce children.” Guest columnists Tom Matthews, Bob Kelly and Pia de Solenni went on to say,

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Anyone who cannot have children should not be allowed to marry by their logic. To me, their opening salvo renders any other point they have null in my book. Old people. People who are paralyzed (in vitro fertilization is out for Catholics), testicular or ovarian cancer survivors that had their parts removed. Many other medical reasons… All these people should never get married by the Catholic writers examples above.  I guess these people cannot love each other as much as any straight couple that pushed out a couple kids.

Is this seriously the best the Catholics can come up with? C’mon. Asshats – the lot of you.

~Wesley

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