KIlling Cancer

Very interesting report from 60 Minutes on killing cancer with the Polio virus.

One of the important things here is that not only was this "cure" taken from treating brain cancer but that it also was tested on breast and prostate cancer among others with good results.

This underscores my main objection to "Titty Cancer Inc." in which the public has been made to think that breast cancer is the most important form of cancer ever and that defeating it is the best thing ever. I have long argued that cancer is cancer is cancer and that the focus on one type is probably bad. Of course 60 Minutes also did a report on "Disrupting Cancer"

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong notably said:

Patrick Soon-Shiong: A cancer is not what people think, cells growing. Cancer is actually the inability of the cells to die.

The key is figuring out the genetic mutation or glitch that prevents cells from dying a natural death. Soon-Shiong's hope is to provide patients with the precise genetic mutations that fuel their cancer regardless of where tumors are found in the body.

Patrick Soon-Shiong: The mutation that happens in lung cancer could be the exact same mutation that happens in the breast cancer. So you need to treat that patient based on its mutation not on its physical, anatomical location.

Interesting thing about the Polio experiment is that in a sense it goes to what Dr. Soon-Shiong says. The body kills the cells like it should.

Sanjay Gupta: That's a big idea. I mean, you know, the idea that the breast cancer specialist, they're looking for breast cancer mutations and they may be missing the ball.

Patrick Soon-Shiong: Absolutely.

Absolutely.

On The Jeremy Clarkson Dismissal

The BBC completely cocked up its handling of Jeremy Clarkson. It likely did so because it wanted to appeal to person who are not interested in Top Gear (Lefties). Yes it was likely that because when you read the criticisms of Jeremy Clarkson in much of the press they come down to:

He's white
He's apparently conservative
He's un PC
He insults people
He's boorish
Top Gear is a "boys club"

Essentially Clarkson represented everything that left wing UK (and US for that matter) stands for.

Apparently because I'm black I was supposed to be on board because of Clarkson's "catch a nigger by the toe" thing. Sorry, I don't offend easily. And I really don't offend easily when the person I'm supposed to be offended by insults just about everybody and THAT is a part of his "act". Personally I'm more offended by the perpetually offended who think that I, and the mass majority of black folks are too childish and thin skinned to hear that without falling to pieces or imagining Klan rallies and lynchings.

That said I do have to agree that Clarkson overstepped a major bound when he struck that producer. I am 100% against initiating violence. I am 100% for self defense, just so we're clear. The way I see it BBC should have suspended Clarkson and fined him in the form of oh, half his contract payout (preferably given to Clarkson's victim as recompense since it happened during BBC official business). Then the victim ought to have been given one opportunity to press charges. ONE time. Failure to do so would have ended the issue there and then. Had the producer decided to press charges, the BBC should have cooperated with any investigation and if any criminal conviction was secured they could have used that as grounds for dismissal OR to add that time to his suspension.

The thing is that when working for celebrities we KNOW that not a few of them have very very difficult personalities. Personally I think the producer should have knocked Clarkson right in the face one Clarkson assaulted him. It would have been quite funny to see an episode of Top Gear with Clarkson with a black eye.

But now BBC has lost a couple million viewers for whatever time slot Top Gear fell on. For BBC America, Top Gear was popular enough to run for HOURS and made up a large portion of it's programming (Star Trek The Next Generation, Dr. Who. Orphan Black being the others). I expect a definite impact on their bottom line. Maybe they don't care. That's there prerogative.

And on that bombshell...

No Water For Men

So I'm watching the Esquire channel. Watching the Six Million Dollar Man, when a commercial for Stella Artois Chalice for their latest initiative

Buy A Lady A Drink.

I'm watching a channel named after a men's magazine and I presented with a commercial to help me get water for women in some developing country. What. The. Entire. Fuck?

I'm not opposed to supplying water to people. Men, women, boys and girls. But I'll be damned if I give to ANY program that specifically excludes men and I think any man who DOES give to such a blatantly sexist program is a self hating dick.

And water.org?

Safe water transforms lives. For more than twenty years, Water.org has pioneered safe water and sanitation solutions that give women hope, children health and communities a future. Join us.

Because men don't need safe and sanitary water.

Fuck you.

I cannot imagine a "lets get water to disadvantaged people" program that explicitly said they were giving it for men, that wouldn't be immediately (and rightly) taken apart for it's sexism. But there is no misandry. Doesn't exist.