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A survey commissioned in 2003 by the Group on healthy American male condom users showed that: 31% of men have experienced condom slippage or breakage 22% of healthy men can suffer partial loss of erection during intercourse when using a condom. Screw on, boys! I read about this on MedGadget!
In the first of a two-part interview in the San Francisco Gate, Buddhist monk Heng Sure talks about his 6-year vow of silence and his 2 1/2-year long walk from Los Angeles to Ukiah, during which he paused to bow to the ground every three steps. As someone who, with great hemming and hawing, is commencing a relationship with Buddhism, I find this story awe-inspiring and beautiful. His message of beginning with oneself also seems very relevant right now when there's so many things happening in the world one could expend all one's energy being angry about.
So, why did you go on the pilgrimage in the first place? I decided that if I could transform my own greed, my anger, my delusions through walking, staying silent and doing the prostrations, then maybe I could do something to make the world more peaceful. I would work on the part of the unpeaceful world that I could control, my own thoughts and words. So the pilgrimage was for world peace, but starting with my own mind.
You mean that by controlling your own behavior, you were symbolically promoting world peace? It was more than symbolic. You have to understand that I was very involved with politics as a college student. I saw my friends getting their heads broken during the Chicago police riots at the Democratic National Convention. I was in school when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and Robert Kennedy died. So here I was as a grad student, trying to figure out what in the world made sense to do, how I should respond to these events. And my thought was, "Well, the traditional Buddhist answer is that you work from the inside. You start from your own mind." Everything is made with the mind alone in Buddhism -- that's one of the idioms. I thought if I could actually understand my own confusion, then that's real. That's not theater. It's not trying to shake my fist at the military-industrial complex. It's not dropping out and getting stoned. It's actually getting to the root of the problem, my own thoughts of greed and delusion.
What was it like out there on the road? What kinds of people did you encounter? We met every kind of person you can imagine. Many showed acts of kindness and generosity. Some were not so nice. We had guns held to our heads three times.
People held guns to your head? Were they hoping to rob you? No. We were robbed half a dozen times, but not at gunpoint. Some people just decided to cock a gun at us -- I don't know why. Marty [the other monk] would say to them, "Hi, we're Buddhist monks on a pilgrimage for world peace. Can we offer you some literature?" And somehow they never pulled the trigger. But what happened much more often was that people would spontaneously offer to help us.
Jason Blair, whom you'll recall from such hits as "I make up stories for the New York Times!" and the sequel "I'm cashing in on making up stories for the New York Times!" is said to have a new gig writing a column for bp, which bills itself as "Hope and harmony for people with bipolar."
Two things that are wrong with this picture: 1) It's not that I wish for this guy to be punished for the rest of his life or anything, but why does every media outlet in America feel the need to reward his bad deeds? Make the guy go to night school and get his horticulture or real estate-appraisal certificate like the rest of us has-beens.
2) There's a whole magazine just for people with bipolar?
I don't know whether to be amazed that the number of advertisements for drugs, other products, and services all targeting this one set of people is sufficient enough to sustain an entire publication or just shut up and be supportive of such an endeavor. After all, I do actually appreciate the advice I get from my health insurance's newsletter for asthmatics such as myself. Still, there's something about the subscription-based glossy format that reeks of lifestyle. And just imagine what the staff meetings are like at these disease-related mags: ADDitude: "The happy, healthy lifestyle magazine for people with ADD" http://www.additudemag.com/magazine.asp
Not only does this new prophylactic from the auspiciously named Futura Medical keep the squirmy ones in and the diseases out, but it releases a gel that works a lot like Viagra, meaning what gets hard stays hard and what goes on stays on.
Jason Blair, whom you'll recall from such hits as "I make up stories for the New York Times!" and the sequel "I'm cashing in on making up stories for the New York Times!" is said to have a 
