Mood:  don't ask

first things first: (WASHINGTON (AP) - Leaders from Iraq, Jordan and Senegal paraded through the White House Monday morning. By afternoon, President Bush was hosting Elmo and the Cookie Monster at a children's holiday party...) and, here, i thought my sesame street blog entry was all made up

second: stop pretending emanuel goldstein... er, osama bin laden is still important. clearly, the war on iraq is the only war going on and has always been the only war. the so-called "insurgents" have always been our enemy and always will be...

until we kill them all and move on

third: we must keep teaching abstinence. children need to learn that it is wrong to give in to sexual feelings. the sooner they learn that, the better control they will have later in life (perhaps in fighting off certain attractions to their own gender), not to mention little chance of getting any STDs or getting pregnant... unless of course, god feels like getting himself another immaculate conception (he has been celibate for quite a while and might be missing that action after two thousand years; there's only so many times he can still get off on watching his priests molesting little boys). barring immaculate conception the sequel, we must trust teenagers to just not have sex. surely, it will be easier for them to completely ignore some of the strongest biological imperatives in their bodies than it would be for them to navigate their way around condoms. and, needless to say, fornication and premarital sex still qualify as sins and surely the idea of burning in hell for eternity will deter any teen from having sex (cause that system has worked so well so far)

and, it's ok to exaggerate the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of condoms. there's no need to be objective and honest with children when the possibility of them having sex is on the line. we need less honesty and more propaganda, anything to be sure that teens will NOT HAVE SEX

except, of course, teens have always been having sex, will always have sex (and not in the way that the insurgents have always been the enemy). isn't it nice when we try to stop things that have always been? and, isn't it even nicer that we try by instituting more rules and more lies?

we could try assuming that the "rules" of the past will be broken, cause they've always been broken and stop acting like we can change human nature through adminstration and punishment and teach people to use simple precaution. it's not a choice of abstinence or abortion. there are many in between choices. and, contrary to popular belief, not a one of them is a sin

watchlist:

• last night
  • audition - a nicely creepy and fucked up film involving a fantastically abrupt change of pace and graphic (though mostly just out of frame) torture and at least one good scare (read: startle) moment
  • arrested development - funny stuff with the coffin mishap, the confusion about ann, buster's costume, the charlie brown motif and the return of the slut shirt
  • the daily show - puppy juice!
• tonight
  • jeopardy
  • rebel billionaire
  • amazing race 6
  • house
  • the daily show
  • and i've got the pink panther to watch on dvd (the life and death of peter sellers got me interested. i liked that hbo film, though the ending was odd and the lack of aging with his kids bugged me. i loved the moments when characters stepped out of the movie to comment on sellers)
  
  
  Posted by ca4/muaddib at 10:25 AM PST
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