Vox cani

I just saw an advert on a US website for Ed vs Spencer, a gameshow in which two room-mates try to beat each other at various challenges… Who can gain the most weight? Who can make the best porn? Only on BBC America…

Here’s the full schedule, from the BBC America website.

ABOUT THE SHOWCameras trail two best friends Ed and Spencer as they compete against each other in seemingly pointless challenges such as "Who can stay handcuffed the longest?", "Who do Women like the most?", or "Who can lose the most weight?"The fun of the show is not so much in the challenges, but in the competitors. Spencer is a doe-eyed innocent who steadfastly believes in hard work and persistence whilst Ed will happily lie, cheat and do whatever else it takes to win.Each week the loser has to endure not only the humiliation of defeat, but also a demeaning forfeit of the victor’s choosing. Coming across more like a demented sitcom than a reality-based show, think Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote crossed with The Odd Couple, or Sanford and Son for the Ashton Kutcher generation.Episode ListMarch 23rd - Who Can Make Himself the Sickest?March 30th- Who Can Stay Handcuffed the Longest?April 6th - Who's the Most Attractive to Women?April 13th - Who Can Survive in the Woods the Longest?April 20th - Who Can Make the Best Porn?April 27th - Who Is the Hardest?May 4th - Who Do Kids Like More?May 11th - Who Can Put On the Most Weight?May 18th - Who Can Make Himself More Famous?May 25th - Who Can Make the Most Money in Three Days

I am all for the BBC making money if it can do so to relieve pressure from the ridiculous license fee; but it is illegal in this country to operate a TV without paying an annual fee in the hundreds of pounds for the upkeep of this corporation as a public service broadcaster. Can anyone explain how they should be making this as a PSB? why a brand financed by a tax is being used for this?

Everything on this site is worth reading, but this is probably the best. My friend’s response to it was, “this is suc a boy joke” (sic).

Toney-Rahman was a majority draw, leaving the heavyweight picture, as Reuters say, “blurry”. Incredibly, answering “Who’s the heavyweight champion?” has managed to become a harder question, going from 4 answers to 5… Comparing this to Lennox Lewis’ masterful reign is depressing, after I watched his gorgeous draw with Evander Holyfield last night, when the world became hungry for the rematch, rather than depressed at the result. For the record, I gave the fight to Lewis, after giving Skelton-Williams to Skelton beforehand, and awestruck at the gulf in class between the two fights. That Danny Williams talks of being a world champion seems crazy after watching the two juxtaposed…

Nikolay Valuev probably wouldn’t be undefeated if those decision wins of his hadn’t been staged in Germany. I like the fighter, and he seems a good guy, but it remains to be proven that he’s worthy of being called a world heavyweight champion. So we’ll leave him aside, he had a defence scheduled against Calvin Brock or Owen Beck, I don’t remember which, but it’s been put back because of injury so he’s on Boxrec as defending against ? on 3rd June. It’s rather appropriate, it is probably answering the questions that is his biggest challenge.
The nice thing though, is that Valuev aside, all the legitimate champions have fights scheduled within about a month. Tonight James Toney and Hasim Rahman clash in what is generally seen as the decider for the “true” HW champ, although I’m not sure it will prove either man much better than Lamon Brewster and Chris Byrd.
Nice to see though, Brewster is scheduled against Serguei Lyakhovich on 1st April and Chris Byrd is scheduled against Wladimir Klitschko on 22nd April. I’d fancy the defending champions in both contests, and I’d then love to see Toney take on Brewster, whose fight with Luan Krasniqi is one of my favourites of recent times. Of course, as they say, boxing is boxing...

South Dakota Governor Signs Abortion Ban


It’s a deliberate challenge to Roe ‘v’ Wade, with an exception for saving the mother’s life, not for safe-guarding her health, not for rape, not for incest… Those latter victims are advised to take the morning after pill, which South Dakota chemists can refuse if they disagree with it. The law will be challenged by the pro-choice/anti-life/pro-death lobby, with the pro-life/anti-choice lobby hoping it will provoke the legal fight that will remove abortion rights throughout the US. At present in SD women must wait 24 hours before an abortion, and must inform their parents, with no exception for incest.

“Currently, South Dakota does not require emergency rooms to provide EC to women who have been sexually assaulted.  In addition, pharmacists may not dispense EC without a prescription even if a specific collaborative agreement with a physician were arrang