A billion dollars later...

And your teens are still having sex. If you hide the facts from them regarding pregnancy and HIV/AIDS prevention they'll develop their own. (Emphasis mine)

Florida teens who believe drinking a cap of bleach will prevent HIV and a shot of Mountain Dew will stop pregnancy have prompted lawmakers to push for an overhaul of sex education in the state. Another myth is that Florida teens also believe that smoking marijuana will prevent a person from getting pregnant. State lawmakers said the myths are spreading because of Florida's abstinence-only sex education. They are proposing a bill that would require a more comprehensive approach, the report said.It would still require teaching abstinence but students would also learn about condoms and other methods of birth control and disease prevention. The bill just passed its first vote in a committee.

Guess what? Your teens are having sex. Get used to it.

Yes, the good old Bush administration. Seldom right and wrong again. No child left behind, except for the ones maimed from drinking bleach and the ones with the Mountain Dew babies. Courtesy of a bunch of religious, moralizing freaks who can't deal with reality.

LuLu nicely shoves it in the face of one of them.

Then again, Bush's abstinence only program wasn't really about teens, was it? It was about something much more common: money.

Sexually curious teens are nothing more than an expanding heap of collateral damage in Bush's dogmatic, religious, authoritarian lark.

Ring off main engines.

The last couple of days have involved repositioning, thus an absence from reading or contributing to blogs. Most news and information coming via satellite and after a struggle in determining to listen to NPR or the digitally remastered 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

NPR won out after remembering that the eight-year old son of an Imperial Oil accountant had so long ago determined that The Beatles songs were all about drugs. If Dear Leader says it's so, it must be so. Lucy, so adeptly painted in the sky with diamonds, by a very young Julian Lennon at Heath House School, couldn't possibly be Lucy O’Donnell. If Steve says "Lucy" equals lysergic, how could we argue?

Interestingly, NPR was running a series of programs which were de-constructing several events which have come to form the fabric of American mythology, not the least of which is Thanksgiving. It would seem that the lot of the Plymouth settlers was not just a little rough, but a great majority of the reality of their lives and behaviour has simply been written out of history.

Yes, I know. It's all rather meaningless at this point, but in doing my catch-up reading I made a stop at Jon Swift (the 3rd funniest blog in the known universe) and discovered that Jon has a new idea that makes more sense. So, while Canadians have long since stuffed the big roasting pan back into the closet and Americans are wondering which weight-loss supplement to buy after last Thursday, the idea of changing the name of the American holiday has more than a little merit. After all, the Puritans who founded the US holiday would go on to ban Christmas. Luckily for them, Bill O'Reilly wasn't around then.

So, while I catch up, take a look at Jon Swift's idea, keeping in mind that there is at least one place in the world where the concept of "giving thanks to the United States" is actually a public holiday.

And to give you respite from my rambling, I tempt you with music. Go carefully, however. Steve may be watching.



Back to regular posting later on.

Graphic: Julian Lennon.