Union Carbide screws up and kills something like over a hundred thousands human beings in India. Despite running the plant, they deny all responsibility for the disaster. Union Carbide leaves India literally in the dark of night, and doesn't clean up the site continuing to contaminate the environment.

They are 'bought out' by Dow Chemical.

Dow Chemical denies all responsibility for the disaster. 'We didn't own Union Carbide at the time.'

Dow Chemical now realizes that moving their operations to India is not only 'in vogue' but highly profitable and also not fraught with the nasty level of environmental rules that limits their profits in America.

But there is that 'little issue' of the dioxin disaster. Well, they just huff and puff and threaten the government of India with their economic might. 'Quash the lawsuits or we don't bring our massive amounts of money to your country.' (fanning of stacks of bills in the faces of the government.)

And it would be a good thing if corporations ran countries like India? Definitely not good for the inhabitants of those countries. The humans, the animals the children...

Ahh, but the 'money changers' will be very rich, and I guess they are the ones who benefited from Bush's 'recovery' so gosh, let's trust them to keep the inhabitants best interests at heart. I'm sure that they will put profit second to a respect for the environment and human lives. Sure, and if you believe that, I got a nice bridge to sell you. Oh, and by the way, if that makes you sick, there is plenty of room at the edge of the curb with all the other poor and sick inhabitants that aren't 'usable' as human parts of the giant profit machines. They'll round you up later. A little Soylent Green, anyone?

How about "I am woman, watch me ralph all over this ludicrous piece that takes as its base the assumption that women spend their lives performing some market-tested version of femininity designed to land them a man on false pretenses."

What about 'Dr. 90210' and the fake tits and fake lips epidemic.

Instead of building people up, the whole female medical/surgery fiasco is a parasite feeding off of women and girls who are in search of the 'perfect' body and either 'lure' a man, or 'keep' a man.

I write this as a 40-something man with thinning and graying hair. Yes, I work out like a mad man but I refuse the 'Just For Man' and Rogaine snake oil sales people and their psychology of 'you aren't good enough' to be seen in public, or be sought after or of being thought of as a sex object because you have gray and/or thinning hair. I'd think that the bimbos out there that would judge me for my hair are the ones that fill the plastic surgeons office getting their 'boobies' and labia's and noses done.

Is all of life about marketing and the cover on the simpering mass of mental illness? And people wonder why this country is so screwed up.

I guess if you have to risk your life to 'get a man', what does that say about you? If you can't 'get a man' on your own, perhaps there is something else wrong than the lack of pneumatic boobs and lips.

Fake tits aren't going to magically fix your life.

They aren't.

The link is interesting. Women that feel a driving need to 'get tits' because they think 'they' are going to fix their lives is not surprising.

If some woman thinks so low of herself that 'getting boobs' is going to totally fix her miserable life has a rude awakening when after the swelling and pain subsides, she is just a wretched woman with sacks of silicone or water tied to her chest.

Yes, there are men drawn to large breasted women and wouldn't mind that they aren't real but are such vain and superficial men really the kind of man that a woman wants?

I've never dated a woman with fake boobs and really can't imagine it. I don't know whether I could get over the feeling that fake boobs is a symptom rather than a cure.

Obviously a woman that has had a breast removed and wants to keep the other or for various reasons has damage to the breast would potentially want to reconstruct the damaged breast and that would be fine, but for a woman to decide that getting fakes boobs is going to radically change her life for the better? These surgeons need to do much more counseling with their marks and less 'sure babe, lets go huge'.

I did catch part of a 'Dr. 90210' episode that had an 'ugly duckling' who wanted tits to turn into a 'beautiful swan'.

She was pregnant at 17, apparently ran away from home, had many unhappy relationships and felt that getting tits was going to 'change my life' as if by magic. The 'surgeon' said 'Lets go with a 'D'' and laughed his way through the taped session...

I was shocked. I'd like them to do a follow up in 10 years. 'How'd the fake tits work out?' Still unhappy? Uh huh...