Want to find all the most naughty television clips in one place? Well, the Parents Television Council has been doing some aggregating for you over at their Worst TV Clips of the Week section.
With links that are described by the likes of: Necrophilia scene, gratuitous sex, and teen orgy party, they should see a nice traffic spike at their site.
It turns out that the notion of the Academy Awards being watched live by more than a billion people is more of an advanced urban legend than an actual calculation.
No my friends, those kind of viewership numbers are reserved for Paris Hilton’s cell phone.
Getting sent to your room isn’t what it used to be. A recent survey indicates that 64% of teens have a television in their bedrooms and another 28% have a net connected computer.
It’s interesting that television still maintains so much more coverage than computers with web access. It could be cost. It could be that parents feel a need to monitor the net use of their kids more closely (although this survey is based on teens between the ages of 13 and 17, so it’s hard to imagine any of them surfing with Mommy). It could also be that today’s kids get to enjoy the soft porn of MTV in the glorious privacy of their own rooms while our generation often spent an entire television season hoping (often in vain) that Valerie Bertinelli would lose the turtleneck and at least strip down to a T-shirt on occasion.
On a somewhat related note, Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be DVR users.
There has been a major surge in sports related injuries among the young. And it turns out that we don’t have to do a whole lot of research to figure out what’s going on. It’s all about overuse.
Dr. Lyle Micheli, a pioneer in the field of treating youth sports injuries and director of the sports medicine division of Boston Children’s Hospital, said that 25 years ago, only 10 percent of the patients he treated came to him for injuries caused by overuse. Back then, most childhood injuries were fractures and sprains. Dr. Micheli said overuse injuries now represented 70 percent of the cases he sees. In interviews with more than two dozen sports-medicine doctors and researchers, one factor was repeatedly cited as the prime cause for the outbreak in overuse injuries among young athletes: specialization in one sport at an early age and the year-round, almost manic, training for it that often follows.
Imagine for a second that you had a friend who secretly recorded your conversations and then made those tapes public when you rose to the highest eschelon of public power. Could you come out of that experience any better than George W Bush did?
The most damning analysis so far describes W as arrogant and a win at all costs kind of guy. If anything, the perception of Bush as the crafty mind behind diabolically competitive strategies only strengthens his image (especially among those who are sure that he’s a bit lean on brainpower).
If someone just recorded the grumblings I emit during the average half hour in front of the television with a bowl of pasta on my lap I would be friendless, abandoned by colleagues and family, and very likely tossed in the can for a minimum 18-24 months.
W pretty much sounded like W always sounds.
On a related note, imagine that a friend of yours had secretly recorded your conversations and then made those tapes public at a time when you controlled the world’s most powerful military and could order covert and lethal action at the drop of a dime.
Forget baseball. Barry Bonds made his first foray into the world of politics yesterday with a press conference that could rival any White House media moments in history. If you looked very closely, you would have noticed that Barry put on about four pounds of muscle during the course of the QandA.
If you are either thinking of running for politics or you are a teenager whose parents are about to bust you for bad behavior, then let this transcript be your guide. Admit nothing. Change the subject. Lash out at your questioners.
No wonder they pitch around this guy.
