Two Consequences

of thinking an environment in which abstinence-only education is promoted is a good thing, I present two examples to the contrary:

US-funded health search-engine censors all results for searches on "abortion"

Teens think drinking bleach will prevent HIV.

That second one is really pissing me off. Can we just admit that there's a huge overlap between anti-abortion and anti-intellectual, and that said overlap is not an accident?

Ugh, I'm so annoyed I'm even more incoherent than normal.

[OSU] Most likely the only post you'll ever see on this blog regarding the OSU Men's Basketball team.

From the Gazette-Times:

Executive senior associate athletic director Todd Stansbury, the other athletic department administrator on the five-person search committee, is also in San Antonio. Lamar Hurd and A.C. Green, the former players on the committee, will also be in Texas for at least part of the Final Four, sources said.

OSU President Ed Ray completes the committee.

Um, what?

Can we talk about priorities for a second?

Someone should really be penning a Baro column or something about this (I'm looking at you, Robert Sanchez), because I'm pretty sure Ed Ray has better things to do.

Hering on Medicare (or, a chance encounter with reality)

It's almost fun to watch him try to squirm and justify his inconsistency:

We have too many laws already. But in the interest of fairness in this connection, maybe we need one more. It would say that in order to practice medicine in the United States, a practitioner must not discriminate against anyone on the basis of government insurance.

Poor, poor Hasso. I can hear the contradictions grinding away in his head:

Medicare = Public.
Public = Bad. [Corollary: Private = Good]

Therefore, Medicare = Bad?

But...

Health insurance = good.
Medicare = the only option for many.

Therefore, public not-for-profit = good?

Boom.

My bad

Remember when I linked to Citizens Against Government Waste? All of two posts ago?

Turns out they are a GOP front group.

Oops.

See this Hullabaloo post for more.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

40 years ago today.




Update: McCain apparently doesn't like civil rights.

Image found here.

The Pig Book

From Citizens Against Government Waste, a useful tool.

At least it wasn't the cell phone

I just dropped my belt buckle in the toilet.

Horton Hears A Who Patriarchy

Damn skippy.

Colin Greenwood Interviewed by Pitchfork

My favorite bit:

Pitchfork: The Pitchfork review of Hail to the Thief put forth the idea that "anything Radiohead does from here on out will sound like Radiohead"...

CG: That's like a late-night stoner comment. At about three in the morning-- after you've put on Captain Beefheart and you put the red scarf over the light bulb-- it makes a lot of sense. But the next morning you're like, "I don't know, maybe the world is fucked and we didn't solve it." So I don't know about that.

Watching from the weeds

From down the road, something that I already suspect might eventually apply to me as well (assuming I have the good luck to have things turn out as well as they have for this guy):

You know what I love about meeting up with my fellow unionists? It's being constantly told that no matter what I do in my job, no matter how well things turn out here at local 3544, no matter how many of our members go on to jobs in labor, I will never be considered successful because of the way we do our membership drives. Everything is tainted, from bargaining to affecting change at the state fed, none of it matters because we don't go knocking on doors to achieve 75% membership. One hundred and twenty-five people at a GMM? Doesn't count. 22% raises over the last 6 years? Useless. (In fact, because the GTFF has not hit the streets in that time, our results should not actually be possible because bargaining is only won "on the streets." That I haven't led the GTFF out on strike means that I haven't actually achieved anything.) I could go on, but you get the drift.