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Republican math:
Affordable: $1 TRILLION per year in tax cuts for the rich
Unaffordable: $6 BILLION per year to help millions of students
And more math-ish thinking:
Affordable: 1 year of tax cuts for 3,340 multimillion dollar estates
Unaffordable: 10 years’ worth of school lunch for 280,000 low-income kids
(Source: The New York Times)
Having sex is totally like drinking a mix of backwash and chewed food, according to anti-abortion activist Brad Seng.
Seng, who visits schools in Colorado to teach abstinence, has an astoundingly absurd way of teaching kids about abstinence: he equates sexual activity with being dirty by asking students to chew food, spit it into a glass of water and offer it to a fellow student:
Laura Binegar said she became concerned after her daughter detailed a recent presentation on abstinence given in her health education class at Southern Hills Middle School. Her daughter described an activity where students spit food into water glasses, then were asked if they would rather drink from a clean glass or a dirty one.
Seng defended himself:
The water glass activity, he said, is a way to engage students. He said students drink the water while eating a snack and mixing some of their snack in the water. Then they exchange glasses. He asks them to drink the water, prompting students to say, “No, it looks nasty.”
“It’s a way to show them that, if they decide to be sexually active outside of a long-term committed relationship, they’re putting themselves at risk,” he said.
The absurdity here highlights one missing lesson, which makes abstinence-only education consistently flawed: no mention of the necessity of contraceptives.
I like Amanda Marcotte’s take:
The parents who are upset at the sex-is-dirty-water demonstration are also concerned that the abstinence-only courses are in violation of the separation of church and state, because Seng works out of an explicitly Christian anti-choice center in Boulder, Colo., one that claims also to be “nonjudgmental”, even while making it very clear that they’re focused on why women specifically shouldn’t have sex. (From the website: “A review of these infections shows that women frequently have more to lose when engaging in casual sex than men do.” Also, hilariously: “Though certainly not an infection, unexpected pregnancy also demands more physically from a woman than from a man.” You don’t say!)
Seng and his defenders in the school administration claim that he’s not pushing a religious agenda in his presentations, but this is coming from people who also claim that putting chewed food in a symbolic vagina to represent sex isn’t judge-y or misogynist. There’s just a point where you stop trusting the authority of shameless liars.
Saturday is Record Store Day! Go back and get ignored by record store employees who think they’re cooler than you, just like in the good old days.
Is it bad that I miss you already?
I feel the distance already and it scares me. Can everything s l o w d o w n, just for a week or two?
I wasted so much time, stressing and worrying about something that would never work out. You’ve shown me what I was missing out on.
You make me infinitely happy.
Thank you.
I disagree with this premise, but I still lol’ed. The problem with Google+ is mostly in that it was trying to create something from a platform (Facebook) that didn’t have a problem. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Google didn’t provide anything new (other than group video, which was already filled by Oovoo, and the likes) that Facebook didn’t already have covered in some way.
