In fact, it is counterproductive. As today’s L.A. Times reports: Young adults who as teenagers took pledges not to have sex until marriage were just as likely to contract a venereal disease as people who didn’t make the promise, according to a study in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Why? "The study found that 88% of sexually active people who … Read More
Yet Even More on Terri
Right winger Neil Boortz has the courage to see what this is is about, and he ain’t afraid to say it: At the center of the Terri Schiavo tragedy is America’s anti-abortion movement. Notice, please, the presence of Randall Terry. The fact is that the anti-abortion movement has seized Terri Schiavo … figuratively kidnapped her .. and they intend to … Read More
Isn’t It Ironic, Don’t You Think?
One of the most ironic statements about the Terri Schiavo case can be found in one of Judge Greer’s opinions: Perhaps one of the few agreements between these experts is that stem cell research is currently at the experimental stage and is years away from being accepted either medically or politically. It would not appear from the testimony that this … Read More
More Thoughts on Terri
Okay. I wanted to write a lengthy response to Professor Volokh’s bombshell in which he advocates torture (you’re never going to get on the Supreme Court that way, Eugene!), but I guess I better focus more on Terri Schiavo since — I’m told — my analysis of the case was rather amateurish and undetailed. To which I plead guilty. Guilty … Read More
Terri Schiavo News Wrap-up
Today is the day that Terri Schiavo is to have her feeding tube removed and to have a dignified death. But, you know how busybody some people are. Even though they don’t know her, or claim to know her, or claim to know what Terri would have wanted, the conservative we-know-better-than-you-because-God-tells-us-we’re-right assholes are doing all they can to make sure … Read More
Life Imitates “Footloose”
Where’s Kevin Bacon and Patrick Swayze when you need them? Lawmaker Seeks to End Sexy Cheerleading By APRIL CASTRO, Associated Press Writer AUSTIN, Texas – The Friday night lights in Texas could soon be without bumpin’ and grindin’ cheerleaders. Legislation filed by Rep. Al Edwards would put an end to "sexually suggestive" performances at athletic events and other extracurricular competitions. … Read More
O’Reilly Makes Shit Up
Bill O’Reilly on the March 15 edition of Westwood One’s The Radio Factor: O’REILLY: You know, the Founding Fathers didn’t write anything into the Constitution about gay marriage. Because back then, if you were gay, they hung you. So — you couldn’t get married ’cause they put you in the rack. You know, if you were runnin’ around wearing a … Read More
You’re The One
"You know, abstinence works. It honestly, truly does. That having been said, it doesn’t help much when you’re having sex." – Jesse Taylor of Pandagon. He’s right, you know. It’s part of the problem with abstinence-only education, as highlighted in Jesse’s post and this article: Half a dozen 13-year-old boys munch pizza and slurp soda as they watch a video … Read More
JeffJim GannonGuckert Stupid Question du Jour
Let’s see what JeffJim would ask today: While I am on hiatus from the White House briefing room, I’m going to post the question I would have asked had I been there. It will be interesting to see if anyone else asks it. March 15, 2005 "Please comment on Monday’s ruling by a California judge that declared that state’s ban … Read More
Excerpts From Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
Here are excerpts from San Francisco Judge Richard Kramer’s ruling that California’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional: "It appears that no rational purpose exists for limiting marriage in this state to opposite-sex partners." "The state’s protracted denial of equal protection cannot be justified simply because such constitutional violation has become traditional." "One does not have to be married in … Read More
My Country’s Representatives Embarrass Me Again
US Draws Jeers for Abortion Comments at UNFri Mar 4, 2005 08:35 PM ET By Deborah Zabarenko UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Jeers and catcalls greeted the top U.S. delegate to a global women’s conference on Friday as she stressed Washington’s opposition to abortion and support for sexual abstinence and fidelity. After withdrawing an unpopular anti-abortion amendment from a key U.N. … Read More
Kansas Attorney General – A Liar and a Wanker
Kevin Drum is right: Kansas AG Phill Kline claims he needs abortion records of teenage girls because he figures some of them were raped and he wants to track down the rapists. So why not get the records of teenage girls who actually give birth too? Mouse Words reports that Kline addressed that question today: I have stated that repeatedly; … Read More
Saving Children’s Delicate Ears From Private Ryan
So, I just read the FCC Opinion about why use of the F-word (and "shit" and other words) in ABC’s uncensored broadcast of "Saving Private Ryan" was not obscene. It is because when our boys stormed the beaches at Normandy, and a guy’s arm got blown off, he didn’t say, "Gosh darnnit! That hurts like the dickens!" No. He said, … Read More
Why I Need To Read More
These are the 110 most banned books. The ones I have read (or mostly read) are in bold; the ones I have read excerpts of are in italics. #1 The Bible#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes#4 The Koran#5 Arabian Nights (any number of doubtless-abridged versions)#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan … Read More
From the Producers of “The Swift Boat Veterans for *cough* Truth *cough*”…
… comes the latest in surreal conservative propaganda. And it is a doosy. AARP: Anti-military. Pro Gay. Therefore, we should privatize social security. This is a copy of the the ad being run by USANext, the conservative alternative to AARP (when you click the actual ad, you are taken to USANext‘s home page). There’s no article or argument as to … Read More