Popular culture: July 2008 Archives

If Ping Pong Is an Olympic Sport, We Can Add Double Dutch

By bmartin on July 27, 2008 11:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The longstanding answer to inactivity in the city kid is now an official, judged sport in NYC schools, writes the AP.

A video segment of the 2006 Double Dutch Holiday Classic at the Apollo Theater: The Harlem crowd reacts with lovable honesty to a Japan team's Best in Show win.

Vaccine-Induced Autism and Professional Wrestling: How Are These Things Alike?

By bmartin on July 22, 2008 1:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

This may be merely an example of water seeking its own level, but World Wrestling Entertainment and Jenny McCarthy will be getting together next month on prime-time network TV* to support Generation Rescue, an organization which promotes the unfounded (and dangerous) idea that "toxins" in vaccines produce autism and other neuropsychiatric disorders in children.

I suspect between choreographed body slams, there will be no discussion of the hazards of anabolic steroids.

* NBC, to be exact.

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