It annoys me that folks keep going on about young people shouldn't get their news from these guys. Excuse me, but I thought the tv ratings folks found that the audience for the Colbert and Daily News show were among the highest educated? People watching this show are college educated, and getting their news elsewhere. This is a cable show, because it is not pitched to the "average guy". These are intellectual shows - for a caring, smart liberal audience.

Fox news is what the average watches. This is not a slam -- but pointing out what different groups of people want to hear. Not sure where smart conservatives go -- probably still sticking to William Buckley's magazine, and the Washington Times. (Do they get a tv show? I know my very conservative and smart Aunt -- has been going insane during the Bush years, fearing that rational conservatives will never recover from the blow of his administration - not a good few years for fiscal conservatives vs social conservatives.)

When you finally get tired of beans, buying the 20+ pds of rice at the asian stores are cheap. But cooking can be a pain, so cough up the one time cost for a good rice cooker. Put in the rice before going to work, set the timer, and perfect rice every time ready and done before you get home. The cooker seems expensive -- but bulk rice will save you money, and makes a good side dish -- or main dish of beans and rice.

And having it all done when you get home from your 10 hour day plus commute -- makes it worth it.

ok, folks if abortion were that easy to do - wouldn't women do them vs going through the scream lines of crazy's to get one at plan parenthood? There are NO magic abortion herbs - and women who self induce even just one abortion, end up in the hospital or dead... that is why the symbol of the pro-choice folks is the hanger with a circle, and a line through it. Now this woman did it how many times??? And I have a bridge to sell you, basic biology, and centuries of women trying to control their fertility, if they could abort by themselves, with nothing but a little blood -- they would.

If this woman had given herself even one, real self abortion all by herself -- she'd be in the hospital from the blood loss,

and she'd still need a D&T -- or she would get an infection and die, which means she'd have had a lot of medical visits - and notice of what she was doing.

Now what she is -- is an artist whose art shows how willing the anti-abortion folks believe that there are such evil women, quite frankly this is what all women who have abortions are doing, and for reason just as lame. This is completely unbelievable, and medically impossible -- but folks believed because the story matches their beliefs, damn the facts.

What bugs me is the so called pro-choice folks also believed it, because deep down they are uncomfortable with some women who make the choice, incase it is for the wrong reasons.

This artist has exposed peoples real opinions of women who have abortions. By claiming something impossible, and terrible gross, and possibly immoral -- because secretly it is what most people believe, they fell for it -- exposing their true beliefs about women and abortion vs what they might claim.

Suckers

But if the majority(75%) is doing it -- doesn't that make it the norm? Which by definition, can't be a disorder. Since disorders are variations from the norm.

Now the norm, can be an unhealthy practice -- lots of cultures

have unhealthy customs, behaviors. But if the majority of the population practices the behavior, it is a norm not a disorder.

You only have disorders that are really norms, if you are trying trying to sell something like drugs, magazines, and weird medical treatments.

The UN reports put trafficking of women and children at #3 after drugs and gun smuggling -- and say that it may actually be #2 now.

The problem is widespread and common in Europe, and every country in the EU is trying to deal with it. And unlike calling someone a child abuser for buying toys from China where it may have been made with child labor. If you are sleeping with women or children who have been trafficked, you are really an abuser -- you didn't do it through a 3rd party, but personally.

As some one pointed out, if a women is a British citizen and wants to be a sex worker, she has legal options. This is about non-British people brought into the country illegally and forced into the sex trade.

Sorry, but if she doesn't speak English, or very poor English - and doesn't want to tell you were she is from -- how many brain cells do you need to know there is a problem?

If she looks 13, doesn't speak English well, not in school and won't tell you her age .... guess what she is 13, and you are worse than just a run of the mill rapist.

Trafficking is the kidnapping, brutalizing, and raping of people from Eastern Europe or N. Africa -- and forcing them into the sex trade in wealthy countries of the EU.

Don't try to pretty it up, or compare it to the experience of a very small minority of the sex trade, made up better paid native individuals. Unlike the people in the news -- getting paid thousands of dollars for a night with politicians -- most sex works are not in that category. A fifty dollar blow job and a thousand an hour high end call girl are not in same category. Or face the same dangers.