“Patients will live with their cancer, and die with their cancer, but not of their cancer - it will be like diabetes today”

Professor Karol Sikora
Imperial College London

Have you ever wondered how medicine will cure all kinds of deadly diseases in the future?  To me, it always seems like there is a group of people locked up in a lab somewhere, constantly trying to figured it out.  There is always a certain amount of secrecy involved in finding a cure that will benefit the humankind, but it will also upset certain corporate interests.  In the end, it is our own immune system that holds the key to a longer life.

Another issue that I find interesting is the constant use of the word “research” when describing a possible breakthrough in the sphere of medicine.  It is usually followed by the word “money.”  However, I don’t think we are ready for a world-wide cancer cure campaign, considering that there are people who are dying from hunger just in this very moment.  And I also hate it when people use Africa as the holy place of hunger.  There are people dying from hunger two blocks away from us.  It is easier to pin point what needs to be done when you are far away from the real issues.  It is when they start being pushed in your face, that you begin to take real measures.

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One of the many topics that news agencies prefer to dwell on, in order to deter your attention from the real issues is gay marriage.  On and on, they would ramble about how bad it is, how God did not intend for it to happen and how the world is going to blow up if we see two men or women holding hands and loving each other, while heterosexual couples are fighting with flamethrowers and baseball bats.

To paraphrase Bill Hicks, if the opponents of gay marriage are such good Christians why don’t they just…hm…forgive gay couples.  Christianity promotes forgiveness, doesn’t it?  Now, I know that people are going to say that this is an issue about principles and the definition of “marriage.”  Well, if you haven’t already noticed I don’t really pay much attention to the terms themselves, but rather to my own experiences.  As a straight man, I can say  that gay people are obviously happier, positive and usually more open-minded than the “blessed” heterosexuals.  Gay couples have been fighting for the right to marry each other for some time now; why shoudn’t they have it?  I would really like to hear somebody’s view on that question.

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“Their political minds are hurting” – Chris Mathews, Hardball, at 3:21 am on MSNC

While I was writing my groundbreaking review of Carlos Mencia’s fast food comedy, I heard a voice behind me saying “their political minds are hurting.” It was no other but Chris Mathews – the host of MSNBC’s Harball.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I think that MSNBC comes the closest to having objective news, but I am tired of listening about the blue color, white color, upper-class, middle-class, lower-class, elitists (whatever that means), and all other “categories” that political pundits use to explain voting turnouts. And guess what? If you consider yourself working class, than they know for whom you are voting. Oh, your political minds will be safe and sound.

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Every once in a while I flip through the channels looking for stand-up comedy. However, what I see can hardly be called that. It seems that the flare and substance that once characterized stand up have been replaced with tasteless jokes.

Example:

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