Merry Samhain, everyone.

[silveradept]

Since yesterday was Halloween, it's proper to start out with a car that got a costume makeover. In a different sort of costume, there's apparently a powered tetrapodal robot wandering about near Harajuku station. If games are more your style, perhaps Tombstone Hold 'Em is your game.

We must crash down from that high eventually, though, as we find that the "abstinence" message is being hawked to ages 12-29. Yeah. 29-year old women are still being told "Don't have kids until you're married." Which means, don't have sex at all, of course! Because while abstinence may be the only 100% sure method of pregnancy prevention, what we've got right now, used properly, will make that chance rather small. If, instead, the Administration would do the sane thing and realize that girls and women are going to have sex and put the money into proper education programs, rather than sticking their fingers in their ears and yelling loudly "AB-STI-NENCE!", the goals of reducing the rates of abortions and pregnancies out of wedlock would probably be achieved. On the political front, it looks like a series of coincidences, and there's likely no legal wrongdoing, but it looks a lot like Karl Rove is putting the government to work on re-electing Republicans. To tip farther away from fair and balanced, here's the top ten ways to tell the world you hate George Bush.

Let's go visit the colonies. I suspect, somehow, that I'm going to be stuck on Io until my loans are paid off. In other science, stem cell work has yielded a miniature liver, which in a few years, may create tissue able to be transplanted, and then wholesale replacement possibilities.

Today, I did much for class, and then helped a friend celebrate her 21st birthday. She was fairly well loaded up by the end of the night, and so we helped her get home, as well. (She went as Carmen Sandiego, which was a fantastic costume.) And now, since I have class in the morning, I'm going to bed. I was going to pontificate a bit tonight, but I'll do it tomorrow, instead.

Comments

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

one comment before i attempt sleep again...but having the computer make a crapload of noise because the 'net died isn't too fun whwn you're almost alsleep...nor is spending 15 minutes on hold in analog because your phone is retarded only to be told "no net for 24 hours, major line down in harrisburg" and then have the net come back, with its appropriate nouse 10 minutes later,but i digress..

http://www.attytood.com/2006/10/no_sex_please_youre_20somethin.html

has some interesting comments on the 20-29 no sex thing. Me, i'm appaled that the gov't would consider wasting money on a age group that has 90% of us sexually active. Sure, most of the "unwed" births happen in this age group, but i'm sure that's also because, hello, this is the time frame when women are most fertile!! You aren't going t see a whole lot of 30-something women giving birth out of wedlock because fertility starts to decline somewhere between 27 and 32. (don't remind me that i'm 27). Just on statistics ALONE there's going to be more births to 20-29 yr olds than 30-39 year olds.

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

Mini-livers just makes me giggle. I know it shouldn't, but I can't help it. I've got micro-electronics on the brain or something because the whole time I was reading I kept asking myself "Yeah, but how many songs do they hold?"

[silveradept]

Curse you, Apple, and your trendy microelectronics!

[silveradept]

As I said - better to pull one's head out of the sand and admit to the reality of the world, and work with that, then live in fantasy-land believing that if gets heard, it gets obeyed.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Do they really think it's going to matter to the 10% of the 20-29 year olds who aren't sexually active? I'd wager it's that 10% who are participating in the abstaining/wait-til-marriage school of thought anyway.