Monday, January 10, 2005 |
21:10 - The damnedest things make us stupid these days
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So apparently, judging by Presidential write-in nominee Jon Stewart's searing sarcasm on the Daily Show bumps on Comedy Central, the latest thing we get to make fun of Bush for is that he's trying to fund programs that promote, of all things, abstinence as a way to curb sexual disease and pregnancy among high school kids. "President Bush has got a real hard-on for abstinence..." The idiot.
Now, I don't normally think of myself as one of those guys who grew up too fast, or has become prematurely aged in mind and body. But when, precisely, did it become a bad thing, worthy of jeers, to suggest that maybe we should encourage kids not to have sex? When did that become such an unreasonable, paleontological suggestion?
From the tone of the discourse, it's starting to sound as though the moral high ground is claimed by those who promote promiscuity with protection, followed by those who promote plain old promiscuity... then, and only then, does the dreaded "A" word start to become grudgingly acceptable as an admissible alternative. Why, these statistics right here say that 64% of all high school seniors have had sex... if your kid hasn't, by golly, encourage him! Is that the message I'm supposed to get? Because that's what I'm hearing.
Why do I get the feeling that the only reason people are acting like this, in any case, is that it's another way to gleefully oppose that old crusty authoritarian Bush? It's like, all he'd have to do if he wanted to lower crime would be to go on TV and ask people to commit more crimes. People would do the opposite just out of spite.
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