With today's news about Indiana Congressman Mark Souder, family values candidate and 18th-century moralist extraordinaire, getting caught screwing a staffer (hehehehehe) and having to resign (hehehehehehehehehehehehehehe), I thought I needed to write something about the stupidity of one of Souder's favorite hobby-horses, that being abstinence-only education. Nope, turns out I already did 3 years ago when we were suffering from the Bush Administration's beknighted view of the world. Turned out there were a few thoughts that I wanted to expand upon in the original post (which I did), and that in turn prompted me to write this post now.
In the last couple months, I've been aiming people at several of my political posts, so I thought it might be relevant to highlight them in a single post that's easy to get to. (This will have to do until such time as I get around to adding indexing keywords to the zillions of posts that are here already for easier reference.)
- Reagan, the Great Communicator (and how he got that way)
- Some hard numbers on health care reform you haven't heard before
- Why abstinence programs don't work
There will be the occasional bit of bad language here and there so if you work in a place where the occasional bad word will trigger the corporate bunny-shit filters (whoop! whoop! whoop! sorry, you probably just got busted), be aware that these may not be entirely SFW. But otherwise, I figure that you're an adult and can deal with this handily.
Addendum, 6/5/10: I'm adding labels to a bunch of posts and spotted these posts to add to the list:
Addendum, 3/19/2011: I've added a post about Sarah Palin:
Addendum, 6/5/10: I'm adding labels to a bunch of posts and spotted these posts to add to the list:
Addendum, 3/19/2011: I've added a post about Sarah Palin:
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