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I have said this before…not here at Wispid yet, but elsewhere.

No doubt, I will say it again here as well in time.

In a land where people are free to do anything, some people will, um, do anything.

Topless anchor women for the television program “Naked News” are required to watch a monitor airing “Naked Sign Language News.” Does anybody wonder what the producers of the program are watching?

I admit to having seen a naked news clip and then immediately thinking, what am I watching? I don’t even understand French.

Tokyo had dished out 400,000 yen, ($3,500) to subsidize the production of a weekly five-minute “naked news’ program that appears on satellite TV in Japanese. But, the embarrassed government says…no more.

Still…Paradise Television says they will continue to make the striptease news show.

Yup…there’s another lesson…if somebody will pay enough for something, somebody else will surely offer it up for service.

What do you think?

See also

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Japan’s Hottest Girls – Numbers 1 – 24

China’s Top Ten Hottest Girls

Nude Wedding Photos

Japan’s adult video screening body, the Nihon Ethics of Video Association, let several Tokyo companies sell overly obscene videos and DVDs.

Consequently…the screeners needed screening.

Japan’s metropolitan police have accused the association of not doing their job.

I wonder, can there be ‘overly obscene’? It’s kind of like being really dead, no?

This reminds me of the film raters letting the F- word, um, ‘slip’ into PG movies.

So, who’s job is it to determine what is obscene, inappropriate, too much, too far, anyway?

What do we do when the ethics of the censors don’t agree with us?

Answer – I am responsible for myself and my kids and nobody else.

What do you think?

A Harvard Law Professor says playing poker teaches life lessons.

His bet is that if he can convince people that it is true he will be able to offer poker workshops to schools and universities worldwide = money overflowing in his kitty.

Playing poker teaches:

1. Numeracy

2. Risk assessment

3. Resource management

4. Psychology

5. Self-reliance

6. How to assess a situation

7. The importance of not making the first bet (in a game or in business)

The Harvard prof has in mind to establish a society at Harvard and chapters at colleges and universities worldwide, Yale, Brown….Tokyo, Singapore, Moscow, Oxford, Cairo!

He also wants to promote poker in developing countries to form nation-building.

“The teaching of poker strategic thinking is a way of thinking suited to national development,” he said. “If you have a populace that comes to believe in their own skills, they become much more empowered individually and collectively.”

Huh!?

Poker also teaches -

8. Regret – I know first hand of a man who literally lost his farm on a poker bet.

9. Social skills – the losers will have to learn how to find a new spouse or partner, if their luck didn’t completely run out at the table

10. I can’t think of a tenth one for some reason…but maybe you can.

What life lessons have you learned at the poker table?