A small bit of Brain before dinner, sir?

[elfs]

Hilzoy on Obama's Veterans Speech

Hilzoy does a good job of defending Obama from the charge that he's going to "battle McCain by throwing boomers under the bus." Instead, she points out that Obama's real intent here is show that McCain is opposed to raising veterans benefits because that might encourage people to leave the service. When McCain writes, "a cause greater than yourself is the most ennobling of all avocations," what he really means is war.

Will male mouth cancer sway the religious right?

Saneblog asks the important question: would the Evangelicals approve the HPV vaccine if they knew their young men were also at risk? Or would preaching against cunnilingus be sufficient?

Abandoned library in Russia

An ineffably sad photographic essay. (via Bookslut)

Comments

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

Or would preaching against cunnilingus be sufficient?

Given the serious difference in how long it took to get birth control approved versus Viagra, my only answer would have to be "HELL NO."

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I meant to ask, would they feel that preaching against cunnilingus is a sufficient response to this threat? Remember, these are the people who believe, and I quote, "It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain-damage baby even ten years later."

I suspect that when it comes to sex, even the young men are expendable.

[codeamazon.livejournal.com]

I suspect it will be used as a reason to preach for missionary sex within marriage with a virtuous woman. After all, HER pleasure is not the church's concern, and this is a compelling (in their methodology) argument for the same sexual mores they have always held.

The Catholic church's opposition to birth control damages men a great deal, as they're expected to support those growing families. I don't think harm is the ultimate consideration. Control is. How will this best help the Church control the people?

[hydrolagus.livejournal.com]

Cunnilingus might be assumed to be bizarre kinky shit that no reasonable guy would do, hence either irrelevant to address in the context of HPV or better not to bring up in case it gave people ideas.

[sirfox.livejournal.com]

it's bad enough in russia, but you get plenty of wasted books in tombs of unheard words here in the states, too.

pittsburgh

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetjuniper/sets/72157603302647339/

[sirfox.livejournal.com]

You're right. My brain got garbled in between looking at the page, and pasting the link here. About par for the course for me, right now.

[mrf-arch.livejournal.com]

The Detroit Book Depository photo set was the first thing the Russian library reminded me of, too.