1/22: People Use Viagra For SEX?
8 p.m.
• As if Pfizer isn't having enough troubles right now, some AIDS group is mad that people are actually having sex after taking Viagra.
What next -- suing gun makers because people commit crimes with firearms? Wait a second...An AIDS organization sued Pfizer Inc. on Monday over ads the group says encourage use of Viagra as a party drug. The group said recreational use of the drug furthers the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, calls Pfizer's ads for the impotence drug false and misleading. The suit echoes allegations made in an ad campaign announced by the group last month.
The nonprofit group alleges the marketing of Viagra has fostered an increase in the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Studies have found the drug is used illegally in conjunction with crystal methamphetamine to form a party drug "cocktail."
While crystal meth can heighten sexual desire, it also can impair the ability to have an erection, said Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. "In order to satisfy that heightened desire, you have to take Viagra," Weinstein told reporters.
Pfizer denied it promotes the recreational use of its blockbuster drug. In 2005, Pfizer had $860 million in U.S. Viagra sales, according to IMS Health Inc.
• Woah, there was a dinosaur that had wings like a biplane? Cool. Pooh on the haters, I've been into dinosaurs since I was a kid. Ceratopsian represent.
With long feathers on its hands and legs, the small four-winged Microraptor would drop from its perch, swoop back up and fly up and down in an undulating motion from tree to tree, the study said.
The bird's ancestor could potentially cover a distance of at least 40 meters (130 feet), according to the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"It seems likely that Microraptor invented the biplane 125 million years before the Wright 1903 Flyer," wrote research authors Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University and Canadian collaborator Jack Templin, who used a computer simulation to study possible flight patterns.
The 77-centimeter (2.5-foot) long, tree-dwelling dinosaur, which weighed nearly one kilogram (2.2 pounds), also had a long feathered tail offering additional flight and stability and controlled pitch, the study said.
7 a.m.
• Oh Jesus it's already started. Once the Bears punched their ticket to the Super Bowl, the "OMG FIRST BLACK HEAD COACH IN SUPER BOWL HISTORY~!!!!" talk began. Now with the Colts in as well, I don't think I can handle TWO WEEKS of this.
• And speaking of black coaches, I'm hearing that the Steelers hired a black guy.
Oh this should be fun. I hope the guy does well, but if he struggles in his first few season, the fan reaction should be ... interesting. Personally, I don't care what color a head coach is; give me people who are new to the head coaching world and let them inject new ideas into the NFL. I'm also curious to see what happens to Russ Grimm, a Steelers assistant who was reported by the Shittsburgh Tribune-Review to have gotten the job in Sunday's edition.Considered a long shot when he interviewed for the head coaching vacancies with the Miami Dolphins and Pittsburgh Steelers, Tomlin agreed in principle Sunday to a four-year contract worth about $10 million with the Steelers, according to two sources close to the situation.
When he is introduced at a news conference today, Tomlin, who turns 35 in March, will be the league's youngest head coach and the league's sixth black head coach.
Tomlin was offered the Steelers job Sunday afternoon. That capped a wild 24 hours during which various news outlets mentioned the Steelers choosing Tomlin, although there was no offer, and one newspaper even saying Russ Grimm was the choice.
• I love this quote from a Patriots player after yesterday's game:
"I think we let them off the hook," said Ellis Hobbs. "We got comfortable. We had the daggar in them, we just didn't twist enough to touch the organs. They kept functioning, living and surviving it. And, lo and behold, they're in the game and we're not."
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