Via mKelley - Tom Daschle now has a weblog. I'm sure it'll be anything but exciting.

Also, Bill Maher has a weblog. Gotta love the nice headshot with him in a modified 'thinker' pose. Just take a normal damn picture of yourself and stop posing.

I'm pretty strongly on Israel's side in their conflict with the Palestenians, but this new law that forces Palestinians who marry Israelis to live separate lives or move out of Israel is very wrong-headed. I don't expect Israel to get support from anybody (it'll be interesting to see what Charles has to say about this) on this issue.

Israel's parliament on Thursday passed a new law that would force Palestinians who marry Israelis to live separate lives or move out of Israel despite charges from human rights groups and Israeli Arabs that the law is racist. The law would prevent Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip who marry Israeli Arabs from obtaining residency permits in Israel.

I didn't know Howard Dean's middle name is 'Brush'. So on the off-chance that he gets elected, we're going to go from a Shrub to Brush as presidential nicknames. Lovely.

Angelina Jolie is angry because her nipples were airbrushed out of the Tomb Raider 2 posters. The actress's protruding nipples were removed from the posters after producers feared they could prove offensive and spark a string of complaints, according to Austrian magazine News. But the 28-year-old said: "I wanted my nipples to be there to see."

We all feel the same way.

Oh the irony. Christopher Reeves now looks amazingly like Superman's nemesis - Lex Luthor. That first link is a Yahoo! picture with a half-life shorter than the open Pepsi on my desk - so use it or lose it.

Ok, so the movie ranks as the wost of summer, but how does the new Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness rate? Well, after numerous hours of sitting infront of the PS2, all I can say is this: it is one of the most frustrating games that I have ever played.

Whoever designed the contols for this game deserves to be shot. There seems to be a lag between the time you move the analog control and when Laura Croft actually moves in the game. Even though they provide you with a "tutorial," it's still not enough to get you adjusted to manoeuvering around the game - I found myself dying quite frequently, mostly because of the controls.

I was also expecting a little more "action" in the game. You rarely get to use any of those cool weapons you find\pick up. I found most of my time was spent jumping (a.k.a. plummeting to my death because I stink at jumping), climbing, and hanging from various scenic spots. I was also disapointed that there were only 2 boss battles, both of which were fairly easy to defeat.

On the bright side, AOD had a good story line, it did attempt to give you some control over the dialog that Laura dishes out to others, and it lets you save at any point during the game (this is especially a plus since you die a lot). It also had a pretty good length of gameplay, but I'm not sure that I would replay this game again.

Sounds like the Eagle County DA is going to set up a Kobe Bryant Blog to spread news rapidly during the trial. The blog hasn't been set up yet, but will be linked from this site when its up and running (later this week). The Colorado Judicial Branch is launching a page this week devoted to the high-profile case on its Web site (www.courts.state.co.us). The page will have information on hearing schedules, motions rulings, biographies of judges and other details.

Do we really need webcams in classrooms to make kids behave? Cameras linked to the internet should be installed in every classroom so parents can see whether their children are misbehaving in school. If pupils knew their parents could see how they were behaving then they would think twice about disrupting classes."

Isn't one of the arguments against cameras in courtrooms that it causes lawyers to 'ham it up' and play to the camera. If lawyers are prone to doing that, what do you think book report day is going to look like in a room full of 13 year olds.

A place for everyone, and everyone in their place. Fresh off the story of the special school for gay kids, now we find that we may need to have special teachers for certain subjects - specifically, only black teachers for black history class. The reason is a good one:

Phyllis Yarber Hogan, a member of the Oberlin Black Alliance for Progress, said a white teacher wouldn't be well-suited to teaching students about subjects like slavery.

"When you talk about slavery, students need to understand it is not our fault," she said. "Our ancestors did nothing wrong to be enslaved.

"How do you work through that when the person teaching it is the same type of person who did the enslaving?"

Thats flat out racist. Thinks of this another way. The kids in black history class need to be taught that slavery is not the 'fault' of the white kids in class. How do you work through that when the person teaching it is the same type of person who was enslaved?

UPDATE: More on this issue from John Hawkins and National Review.

Does the RIAA want you? Dump in your file sharing username or IP address and the EFF will cross-check it with the newest RIAA subpoena database. Pretty nifty. They also have some advice on how to not get sued page featuring what is probably the current key to staying out of trouble: The RIAA appears to be targeting subpoenas at users who allow their computers to be "Supernodes" on the FastTrack P2P System (used, for instance, by KaZaA and Morpheus). [link via Magnetbox]

What the hell. NYC to open high school for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students. Since when did separate but equal come back into vogue?

But New York State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long blasted the school as "social engineering" that wastes tax dollars. "Is there a different way to teach homosexuals? Is there gay math? This is wrong. This makes absolutely no sense," Long said. "There's no reason these children should be treated separately." Long said there are city and state discrimination laws on the books and that authorities should enforce them to stop gay-bashing.

"What next? Maybe we should have schools for chubby kids who get picked on. Maybe all kids who wear glasses should have special schools. It's ridiculous," he said.

Yeah, what he said.

UPDATE: Here's a picture of the gay-only school.

Not suprisingly, the conservatives at Berkeley are demanding an apology from the University after a press release was issued gleefully misrepresenting a study about the psychology of conservative beliefs. I hope they aren't holding their breath.

"We are demanding an apology from the University for attempting to promote political bias in their press release and misrepresenting the study. Rather than constructively addressing the issues, they attempt to offend their opponents through rhetorical spin."

The press release is also under fire because of correlations drawn between political figures such as Adolf Hitler, former United States president Ronald Reagan and Talk Show host Rush Limbaugh who were never mentioned in the study.

So you really like this site - obsessed with it even. Swiping my design without asking is not the way to express it. My favorite part is from this guy's resume:
Position: Web Site Programmer/Designer
Objective: To advance my career as a web developer and project manager.

Somehow I don't see this little incident helping too much. Thanks to Mike for the heads up.

UPDATE: The design has been taken down, and I received this email:

Student suspended for 90 days (then reduced to 5) because he had red eyes. That seems reasonable!

In the suit filed Thursday in Fairbanks state court, attorneys for Frey and his father Martin Frey allege that school staff ordered Anthony to submit to a nurse's eye exam after he displayed red eyes on the last day of school.

The results of the test, called a ''rapid eye exam,'' resulted in vice principal Ted Scoles ordering Anthony, a freshman at the time, to provide within 24 hours a urine sample that would be tested for drugs.

Anthony was expelled for the first 90 days of the upcoming school year after his father refused to have his son provide the sample, the suit states. Anthony Frey said his eyes were red not because of drug or alcohol use but because he had stayed up late the night before studying for two final exams.

Another failure by a woman golfer on the PGA Tour - though this one was to be expected.

The Golf Digest headline right now is Girl Power! Suzy Whaley didn't make the cut at the Greater Hartford Open, but the club pro from Connecticut exceeded expectations, following her opening-round 75 with a 78 on Friday. Jeez, lets just sugar coat that a bit more please.

With Suzy Whaley, it's not about the score or making the cut. Thanks Rosaforte.

Excuse me, but we are still talking about sports right? If it wasn't about the score or making the cut, then why the hell is she playing? Sports is about competition, and if you aren't competitive you need to get the hell out. Ugly as he's been, Ian Baker-Duval had the sense to get the hell out after his opening 83. Suzy beat exacly two players - Gabriel Hjertstedt and Ryan Ouellette. Well, if that exceeds expectations, then congratulations - your blue 'participation' ribbon is waiting for you in the clubhouse.

This is an interesting idea - Snapster. A public company that buys CDs and distributes the songs via the web to its shareholders for a nominal fee (nickel a song). Its perhaps not illegal since as a shareholder, you have an ownership stake in the companies assets - the CDs. So you are essentially just downloading music that you already own. [link via Magnetbox]

What I have described is legal, it just leverages technology in a way that has never been done before. There are precedents for group ownership of recordings and certainly the law of mutual funds is very clear. Of course, the RIAA will have a response. They will file suit, probably claiming restraint of trade, but this simply will not stand and it is impossible to believe they could get any form of retraining order. Still, Snapster must have funds to support a vigorous defense -- a defense that has been planned well in advance. The RIAA will also try to have laws passed making Snapster illegal, so an anti-RIAA lobbying effort would also be a good idea.

It would appear that David Duval is the new Ian Baker Finch. Both won the British Open and then quickly lost nearly all their skills.

Duval: His problems began on the 434-yard par-4 first hole, where he hit two shots out of bounds, one to the left and one to the right. It took him two more shots to the get to the green and two putts to hole out for a quadruple-bogey eight. Duval shot a 13-over-par 83 yesterday, leaving him 20 strokes off the lead. He also withdrew from the tournament.

Baker Finch: The 37-year-old Australian's startling slide from the top was marked by an inability to hit his driver reliably off the tee, often snap-hooking wildly. The problem started after the British Open win when he decided he wanted more distance out of his drives and adjusted his swing. But the slump reached its depth in the first round of last year's British Open at Royal Troon when he returned an embarrassing 92 in the first round and withdrew.

Glenn Gaslin [here's his weblog], the guy who interviewed me for the Entertainment Weekly piece about Snoop Doggy Blog has written a book - Beemer - that is getting good reviews.

For all the angst-ridden folks who didn't know what to do after the world failed to end at the stroke of 2000, this is the answer. Equal parts Chuck Palahniuk and Jack Kerouac, this dark and laugh-out-loud road trip through the great mini-mall of America is the answer to your quest: brand yourself.

I can't believe - after making such a stink over Iraqi's showing pictures of captured/killed American soldiers - that the Pentagon actually released pictures of Uday and Qusay's dead bodies. If they just had to get the pictures out to help the security situation in Iraq (and they probably did), they should have had them released by somebody else. It would have been very easy to turn the bodies over to a funeral home (or something like it) after doing the autopsy and suggesting that they take pictures of the bodies and release them to the public - as a funeral notice.

UPS sure has a funny idea of the quickest way to get a package to my house:

Jul 23, 2003 7:55 A.M. WICHITA, KS, US OUT FOR DELIVERY
4:52 A.M. WICHITA, KS, US ARRIVAL SCAN
12:42 A.M. LENEXA, KS, US DEPARTURE SCAN
Jul 22, 2003 4:36 P.M. LENEXA, KS, US ARRIVAL SCAN
12:39 P.M. WICHITA, KS, US DEPARTURE SCAN
12:09 P.M. WICHITA, KS, US ARRIVAL SCAN
3:57 A.M. FORT WORTH, TX, US DEPARTURE SCAN
2:08 A.M. FORT WORTH, TX, US ARRIVAL SCAN
Jul 21, 2003 10:26 P.M. AUSTIN, TX, US DEPARTURE SCAN
8:49 P.M. US BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED
6:08 P.M. AUSTIN, TX, US ORIGIN SCAN

I've lived in here my whole life, so it doesn't suprise me to find out that Kansas is flatter than a pancake - literally.

Google added a copyright notice to the bottom if its search page as an interface feature. In its early days, the company asked some focus group participants to search for information using its site. But many people, when they went to Google, did nothing for a minute or two.

When asked why, these apparent procrastinators said they were waiting for the rest of the site to load.

So, the company thought that by putting a copyright notice on its page--something usually found only at the bottom of a fully loaded page--perhaps people would get the hint that the spartan page was fully loaded.

I can see how this may be a legit issue. When I'm on the computer but not fully paying attention, I'll glance at the vertical scroll bar to see if a page is loaded completely (if there's no scrollbar or if the scrollbar is still re-sizing itself, it ain't done yet). With Google, the page is so short, that a vertical scrollbar never appears even when fully loaded (except at small resolutions). Interesting problem.

Snopes says that Hunting for Bambi is one big hoax. The reality is that Hunting for Bambi conducted no real "hunts" — the site was launched as nothing more than a storefront for selling spoof videos. (After all, $19.99 tapes and DVDs, and not $10,000 hunts, are the product advertised on the site's opening page.) They staged a phony dog-and-pony show for a credulous reporter who on bit the hook, and once the media began gleefully reporting the Hunting for Bambi concept as real, the publicity attracted the attention of potential customers who were genuinely interested in going on their own "Bambi hunts."

Over the past couple of weeks, there has been story after story on TV, in print and on radio about this story. If Snopes is correct, and I think they are, this is yet another black eye for journalism.

... its time to change sides. Time to re-think my ideas about the RIAA and their crackdown on mp3 downloaders - I can't just sit around and have Michael Jackson agreeing with me. Maybe those RIAA chaps aren't all bad...

I'm back in town after going to a friends wedding this weekend. Something like normal updates will continue tonight.

Suprisingly, the new Antonio Banderas movie- Once Upon A Time In Mexico - which I guess is the sequel to Desperado, actually looks like it might be decent.

Hmm, I'm not doing a very good job of avoiding politics like I had planned.

I just took the Select Smart Presidential Candidate Quiz that I noticed Jeffry mention. Here's the (not very suprising) results. The one exception would be seing Hillary's name pop up into the top 10. Even if candidates 1-7 all died the day before the election - I'd never vote for Hillary.

1. Bush, George W. - US President (100%)
2. Bayh, Senator Evan, IN - Democrat (89%)
3. Lieberman Senator Joe CT - Democrat (87%)
4. Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (85%)
5. Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (83%)
6. Kucinich, Cong. Dennis, OH - Democrat (79%)
7. Libertarian Candidate (78%)
8. Clinton, Senator Hillary Rodham, NY - Democrat (78%)
9. Daschle, Senate Minority Leader Tom, SD - Democrat (75%)
10. Biden, Senator Joe, DE - Democrat (75%)
...
33. LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. - Democrat (0%)

Glad to see LaRouch finish dead last on my list. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

I hope to hell that the Republican party is planning on spending major dollars to keep John Conyers D-MI from getting re-elected. If Conyers were in charge, we'd have the draft reinstated, and MP3 downloaders would be sitting in jail, yet drug offenders would not. And the drug offenders shouldn't go to jail because ... bulk of drug offenders are sentenced for non-violent crimes. So either Conyers thinks MP3 downloading is a violent crime, or he's being paid well enough to endure his on hypocrisy.

Generally, it appears to me that Congress is determined to find a way to shut down file sharing services and apps. In a series of hearings on Capitol Hill last spring, lawmakers condemned online song swapping and expressed concern the networks could spread computer viruses, create government security risks and allow children access to pornography.

If Congress bitch-slapped everything that could spread computer viruses, create security risks, and enable kids to access porn - they'd have a much larger list of targets than just the file sharing crowd. Hell, the entire internet is a liability under that criteria.

Ahem. If you happen to have a neoflux.com email account, and haven't logged in for such a period of time as to let over 8000 messages accrue into your account - you no longer have a neoflux.com email account.

Can we all agree that the French government officially chaning the term email to courriel - because they don't want English words mucking up their language - is just as silly and uncalled for as the US Congress changing the name of French Fries to Freedom Fries in their cafeteria? [link via Geek Press]

UPDATE: How long till they come up w/ their own word for internet. Thats a distinctly English word that has creeped into their language as well.

Ugh. I hate this idea. Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantino's next movie to be released in October has been split into a Part 1 and a Part 2. The second portion of the movie will be released anywhere from 2 to 6 months after the first.

I just noticed that one of Chuck Palahniuk's tour dates for Diary is going to be up on the plaza in Kansas City ( Rainy Day Books at Unity Temple on the Plaza) on September 10th. I'm going to have to take the day off work and drive up there to get some books signed. You up for this one MiniEd?

Great suggestion for the MLB Home Run Derby during All Star week - give them aluminum bats. Hell, I'd watch that.

In past derbies, we've seen home runs reach the restaurant at SkyDome. We've seen home runs hit the warehouse at Camden Yards. We've seen home runs hit out of a domed stadium.

But this year, I want some really impressive home runs. I want home runs so mammoth that even Chris Berman and Kenny Mayne can't come up with calls adequate enough to describe them.

I want players to hit baseballs out of the stadium tonight and onto the Dan Ryan Expressway. I want home runs hit over the Dan Ryan and into the Robert Taylor Homes. I want home runs hit into the Robert Taylor Homes and through Kirby Puckett's old bedroom window.

16 year old student who manufactured look-alike weapons in his shop class has been suspended for an entire year. Here's what did him in:

Clarady said the student confessed to making the look-alike weapons: a pistol, pipe bomb, homemade grenade, grappling hook, detonating device, remote control switch, five fuses, and a "zip gun." School board member George Beninghaus, a deputy with the Gogebic County Sheriff's Department, said the zip gun "looks intimidating in the picture."

And if he'd had actually had a real pistol, pipe bomb, etc in his possession - his punishment from the school would likely have been exactly the same as for having the fake ones. My question is - where the hell was the shop teacher while this student turned the school basement into an armory? The kid had been suspended previously for smoking tobacco/weed - in shop class. Again, where's the supervision?

At one point, he paid another student to assault a classmate, but most of his problems were considered mischief, both Clarady and Beninghaus said. There were no red flags, according to one of his teachers, although the teacher said they were "careful not to leave him by himself." Well, what a bang-up job they did with that policy!

I managed to finish reading the 4th Harry Potter book (Goblet of Fire) over this past week or so. I had read books 1-3 consecutively right after the 1st movie was released, but got busy with other things and so never started the 4th book until recently. All I can say is wow.

Goblet is far and away the best of the first 4 books (I haven't even finished the 1st chapter of Book 5 yet). Generally I thought Book 1 was interesting, Book 2 was disappointing, Book 3 was an improvement, and now Book 4 went well beyond my expectations. Between 3 and 4 together, the Harry Potter stories have went from a real focus on about 7 characters, to expanding the story line to about 20 people. Book 4 provides much of the historical perspective that was lacking in the first few books - yes Voldemort was evil, but exactly why; yes he did horrible things, but exactly what. Until Goblet, those answers weren't revealed.

I'm not going to go into the plot because thats just not how I like to review books. But if all you've seen of the story is the movies you ought to go grab books 3 and 4. I hesitate to make the comparison, but it really is Star Wars-esque. Sounds silly, but there really is that much story and that good of characters to make the comparison valid.

I'll be interested to see how they manage to make Goblet into a movie though. The book is quite long, and much of it is either action sequences, or flash-back type stuff that provides the necessary background on the new characters. There has been talk of splitting Goblet up into two movies, but I couldn't sense a spot in the story where it would be appropriate to break at. They may have to do something like the 1st Lord of the Rings movie and just stop the movie at the end of a scene - otherwise, we are probably looking at a 3 hour long film.

Interestingly enough - I apparently now live in the fastest growing city in Kansas. Everybody wants to be my neighbor. :)

I'm thinking about ordering NBA League Pass for this upcoming season, but haven't ever had it before, or even known somebody who had it previously. Does anybody have any experience with the package? Is it just one channel with a random team on it each night? Do you pick a team to follow and then get all their games? Is it a group of channels that has all the games being broadcast that night? The ads for it aren't very specific.

Damn Amazon. Despite my signing up for email notifications of new works by certain authors, they can't seem to get me the notifications in a timely manner. When Porno was release in paperback a couple of weeks ago, I didn't get notified until about a week after the fact and now Douglas Coupland, who did All Families Are Psychotic, has a new book out called Hey Nostradamus!, and I haven't received any kind of notification on this one either.

There have been other examples, but most of the stuff I wasn't notified about - I actually didn't want, so I didn't care.

I think I've entered another period of hating politics. It happened right after the 2000 presidential election - but I thought that was just a burnout and information overload type issue. But here is that feeling again, over a year before the election this time.

All of the political discussion is so shrill at the moment that its pretty much unreadable (otherwise intelligent websites are turning into campaign headquarters) - and unwatchable on TV (have you seen Crossfire lately?). I'm going to do my best to avoid reading or watching anything political for the next couple of weeks in an attempt to refresh my brain.

Forgot to mention before I left - I'm in Arkansas until late Thursday. No updates from me until then.

A court decision we can all agree with. After the judge told Spike Lee he'd have to post an additional $2,000,000 bond to keep his lawsuit against Spike TV going - the lawsuit has suddenly went away. Lee's attorney is - not suprisingly - claiming that the suit was 'settled', but I highly doubt that.

After a couple weeks of bad publicity for his client - likely due to his own flawed initial legal advice - the extra $2m bond was a convenient out for Lee.

Just for the sake of irony, I hope to hell that Spike TV suddenly shows up w/ a cartoonish bald black mascot wearing an NY hat. That'd be a nice little 'fuck you' to Lee for causing problems.

Just a thought. But shouldn't a guy who lured a 13-year-old to her eventual death using the internet, be ... oh I don't know ... banned from using the internet while in prison: Saul Dos Reis Jr. hasn't stopped searching for females on the Internet, despite being sentenced in May to 30 years in prison for killing a 13-year-old girl he met on the Web. The 25-year-old former Greenwich man has set up a Web page seeking female correspondents, listing his current address as the Donald W. Wyatt Correctional Center in Central Falls, R.I., the Greenwich Time reported Sunday.

Michael Savage gets himself fired for ... being Michael Savage. MSNBC had to know something like this was coming. Here's what did it: "Oh, you're one of the sodomites," Savage said. "You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it."

Sounds like somebody tied Savage's scarf too tightly. Idiot.

Ethan Hawke is offering up 900k shares of his new movie at $8.95 to the public in an attempt to get it financed. Interesting idea - I have a feeling that it won't work though.

Chicago's Civilian Capital Inc. has selected an Ethan Hawke vehicle as the first movie to be financed via a public offering of stock. Civilian has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of shares in Billy Dead Inc., an eponymous holding company for a murder mystery with Mr. Hawke as its executive producer and likely lead actor. Civilian plans to raise $7.9 million by offering 900,000 shares priced at $8.75 apiece, to be traded on an over-the-counter bulletin board basis.

The official website for Chuck Palahniuk's new book - Diary - is now up and active. As with all recent Palahniuk offerings, there is a street team that you can sign up for and get a poster (and maybe stickers/postcards/buttons too) for the book in the mail. There's also about a 3-5 page excerpt from the book. It looks to be very good.

"The idea is clear: Real Madrid are working to open up the North American market, which has unlimited potential, as soon as the Asian market, with Beckham and Ronaldo at the forefront, is dominated completely."Good luck with that, especially considering this story:

"David Beckham has extraordinary toenails," wrote John Carlin, who interviewed Beckham for Real Madrid TV. "They are incredibly strong, healthy and, above all, thick. "Perhaps those toenails reveal part of the secret of his famous ability to bend the ball."

This is it? Their great marketing outreach to try and convince Americans for the millionth time that soccer is an exciting sport - and it starts with toenails? Time to fire the publicist.

This could get real ugly for the PGA Tour. Up to now, Tiger has only complained that 'some players' - nobody specific - 'might' - not are - be playing with a driver that violates the USGA rule for COR (spring-like effect). Unfortunately, Tiger hasn't gotten what he wants (1st tee testing of all drivers) by trying to play it nice and quiet, so it seems to me that he's on the verge of naming names.

The No. 1 player in the world has been the most vocal on the question of "hot" drivers, saying he thought there were illegal clubs on TOUR. On Wednesday, he went a step further, saying he personally knows one player who uses an illegal club.

"Just watching his ball come off the face, you can just tell," Woods said. Woods said he hasn't reported the player, but he has talked to him about it.

"(He said) he's just playing golf. He's playing the equipment that the manufacturer has given him," Woods said. Therein lies part of the problem with voluntary testing.

"Say you hand me a driver and I hit it 20 yards further," Woods said. "Hey, I'm happy I hit it 20 yards further. I'm not going to ask you why I'm hitting it 20 yards further, because it worked for me.

If Tiger Woods is personally confronting players, this is a HUGE problem. The PGA Tour cannot afford to miss the boat on this issue and have players out there (knowingly or not) with non-conforming equipment. But, even if Tiger is dead wrong (I tend to think not), the Tour cannot afford to piss off its best player, who could easily drop PGA Tour membership and not miss a beat.

Envy looks to be funny. But I'd pony up the money to see pretty much anything with Jack Black, Ben Stiller & Christopher Walken in it.

I was gone yesterday, so it didn't get mentioned - but I turned 31 on Tuesday.

Can we all just agree to turn into Socialist P.C. drones and get it over with? Pressure groups like the European Women's Lobby are demanding a directive that would deal with sexual stereo typing on the analogy of legislation outlawing incitement to racial hatred. Draft papers on the issue say that while freedom of expression must be respected, sex discrimination and affronts to human dignity should be banned from media and advertising.

"The purpose is to avoid throughout all forms of mass media all stereotypical portrayals of women and men, as well as any projection of unacceptable images affecting human dignity and decency in advertisements," an internal commission document says.

Future legislation could affect TV shows and advertisements which portray women or men as sex objects.