Santorum: There should be no birth control

I just heard Santorum's interview with Bill O'Rielly, where he talks about how "artificial" birth control is "something that lets people do what they want to do without the responsibility that comes with it. I think it's wrong. I think it's harmful to women."

I bet Santorum wears a seatbelt. I bet he vaccinated his kids. Where is the respect before God that his faith demands, when he drives, and sends his children out into the public, while shielding them from the responsibility that comes with driving, or even meeting other people?

Ohhh, but it's all about the SEX, don't you know. Santorum's stance is obvious: he wants to punish women for having unauthorized sex, and the punishment he wants to inflict is pregnancy and subservience before men. The entire Republican Party base, men and women, want to punish their fellow human beings for having sex and pleasure. That's all there is to it.

"Rebooting Romney"

This afternoon I took Kouryou-chan for a haircut. While I waited for her to be done, my eyes settled on a copy of Newsweek with Mitt Romney prominent on the cover. It was from the second week in November, and the cover story was: Rebooting Romney.

This week, after Rick Santorum's three-state sweep, I again hear conservatives talking about "rebooting Romney."

When are they going to realize that the entire operating system, hard drive and all, is irrevocably corrupt?

Two bits from the WIP

She was a historian, she told herself. There wasn't a single culture that didn't fail some segment of its population, somewhere. There wasn't a single principled ideology that, as a consequnece intended or otherwise, didn't create a vulnerable and exploited segment. She would rather have lived in one that didn't do so with deliberate malice.

And

That was one of the things the people from her world were good at: brutal honesty. An Abian might hold her tongue in the face of small injustices, but ultimately the truth would out. That's what came of a world populated with the children of religious fanatics. They might eventually forget what they had their parents had been so fanatical about, but they still came with a great set of tools.