Friday, April 20, 2007

In the end



RECENTLY, we posted (on our sidebar—at right) a story about a UCLA study that concludes that diets don't work. Well, no. It concludes, not just that they don't work, but that, typically, they cause dieters to gain weight in the end.

Well, not necessarily in the end. You know what I mean.

There are new indications that "sexual abstinence" programs don't work in the end either, although, in this case, I coulda told you that. I mean, DUH.

From Bob Park’s What’s New, 4/20/07:

SEX EDUCATION: ABSTINENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER. Students who participated in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex as those who did not, according to a study ordered by Congress. Nor did they have fewer sex partners, or wait longer to become sexually active.

The report, released late last Friday, comes just after the abrupt resignation of Dr. Eric Keroack, an anti-birth control zealot, appointed by Bush just four months ago to head the Office of Population Affairs of the Department of Health and Human Services. A non-board-certified gynecologist/obstetrician who operates six Christian anti-abortion centers in Massachusetts, Keroack had been notified of a state investigation into his private practice.

A rainy day in the OC.:

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...