We canceled our subscription to National Geographic about 10 years ago because of the politics creeping in and to the Reader's Digest this last June because it was becoming nothing but a mouthpiece for Suzuki.

A year after my father passed away, Reader's Digest claimed he had just authorized yet another years' subscription.

It doesn't help that Reader's Digest targets & abuses subscribers with the most relentless, annoying, and counter productive marketing! We canceled just to get relief from the mountains of junk mail, unsolicited parcels, and constant phone calls.

"A year after my father passed away, Reader's Digest claimed he had just authorized yet another years' subscription. "

They did this with my dead grandparents also.

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!

AARP, Jun. 6, 2010 - Arugula Salad with Parmesan: Quick to prepare, this makes an excellent first course or side salad.

Folio, Aug.9, 2010 - The largest-reporting title, AARP (23,721,626) saw its total paid and verified slip 3.39 percent during the six-month period.

A simple question.

What are Pacific oysters doing off the coast of western Europe?

Could this be nature ridding itself of an invading sepcies?

Anyone?

Speaking of...

Just freshly plucked from Drudge's top of the page:
...Developing...
"Obama Approval Index: -22 (Matches all-time low for this president)
Strongly Approve 24%
Strongly Disapprove 46% (Matches highest for this president)
Total Approval 43%

[Note: Media coverage of Obama has improved significantly over past week as his approval ratings have slipped... While 43% of voters approve, 55% of media coverage has been positive.] "

Payback in November will be a bitch for the Democrats.

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!

Prevention, Sep. 2007 - Together, the Woolfs were active in the liberal London intellectual scene.

Bloomberg, Aug. 9, 2010 - Rodale Inc.’s Prevention was the second-biggest decliner with 12 percent.

I hear Davenport whistling again.

I have a stomach ache today. Must be caused by climate change as I think the warmer air I'm breathing in is irritating me.

Nice work Kate, a two fer on yer favourite headlines!

My dad was a longtime subscriber to NG. After he passed, I took it over, but dropped it after seemingly every issue was global-warming related. Too bad, it used to be quite good. The photography is still quite excellent.

After seeing doofus cbc'er george strombo on cover of Readers Digest,I have NEVER purchased another one...even tho I am a 'confirmed' winner countless times over of their Sweepstakes!

The National Geographic ought to have died a natural death by the late Nineties. It belongs to that lost era when you had to either go to the public library or buy a set of encyclopedias to have any semblance of a comprehensive source for general information.

Frankly, I always preferred those vintage, unabashedly Eastern-Seaboard-WASP-worldview National Geographics.

You know, the ones that had a jolly time describing those quaint foreigners in exotic countries and their colourful local customs and antics.

And they had a thing for comely bare-breasted native girls too!

There's a great (possibly apocryphal) story of a National Geographic issue in the late Thirties that covered the "people and places" of Spain without once mentioning the country was in the grips of a murderous civil war. If it wasn't true, it should have been.

Also, at the back of the magazine there were always those ads for military academies where you could send refractory young Thurston Howell III away to in order to keep his hands off the maids and out of the liquor cabinet.

The most telling evidence of the magazine's decline is surely this: whenever I'm stuck in a doctor or dentist's waiting room, I'm inevitably disappointed if the National Geographics turn out to be current issues rather than dog-eared older ones.

The decline of NG has been sad to watch, along with another once-great magazine: Smithsonian. I subscribed to it for 25 years or so, but finally had to let it go. There was just too much leftie and/or greenie crap. The final straw was an article about some kind of national park or nature preserve in Cuba, saying how it had been created "by will of the people". IIRC, that's a line straight out of the Soviet national anthem.

Yes, NG has been riding on the global warming band wagon for years. Such hypocrisy - take a look at the number of advertisements on its pages that feature SUVs and their kind.

"What are Pacific oysters doing off the coast of western Europe?" - Doug

They're probably confusing them with the Bearded Clam which is found everywhere.

National Geographic? I was a subscriber for over twenty years and realized one day that it had become a hectoring, scolding, politically correct rag obsessed with global warming and peak oil. And the general social theme was (is), the third world is dynamic and exotic, the west is f$€¥ing everything up.

RD? If I see Suzuki's face on the cover one more time, I'm cancelling my wife's subscription.

Sammy @ 1148. You must be mistaken Sammy, I've been told monthly that I am the winner. And I canceled last year's subscription!