Komen Kuts Kancer screening for poor people! - Susan G. Komen For the Cure, the world's largest breast cancer organization, has cut off funding for breast cancer screenings and education programs run by Planned Parenthood and it's affiliates. The Komen spokespeople deny that it's political pressure from the right driving this decision...it also involves Walmart and the Baptist Church. Poor people don't have breasts. They have Hooters.
Get Her a Pony- Fourteen year old homeschooled girl asks Maryland legislators to ban gay marriage for her birthday. WTF? We are yielding the floor to children now? I think homeschooling should be illegal. Unless we put them in a homebreeding program,too; force them all to interbreed until their lines devolve back to eel. A delicacy.
David Brooks writes about the great growing chasm between what he calls the Upper and Lower Tribes, gaps not in just income and housing, education and healthcare...but also behavioral. Upper Tribesmen tend to work harder and marry forever. Lower tribes fuck and have children but no legal spouse or job. Lower tribespeople are less likely to go to church or be active in their communities. They are more likely to watch television excessively. Brooks suggests that it's all in attitude, really - we should force the tribes to live close together for awhile and intermarry, etc. Brooks would probably move to Canada and take his daughter and her pony.
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I can't write about my boy - it's discouraged or maybe not even really permitted and since that's mostly on my mind lately....I am going through a relative drought, creatively speaking.
My run yesterday. I like the tree at the top.
