HappySqurriel said:
I don't disagree ... This doesn't change the fact that the schadenfreude demonstrated by many people about her families troubles is sickening, and the assumption that "If only Bristol had sexual education she wouldn't be pregnant" is flawed. |
No one is claiming that she wouldn't have gotten pregnant otherwise, but its pretty damning testimony that abstinence-only education is an excessively idealistic and religiously motivated idea since teen pregnancy is so prevalent, and often even more prevalent in areas without real sex education.
Republicans run on family values, always. That is one of the reasons why the Religious Right votes for them so regularly. It is completely fair game if their families don't live up to the standard they proclaim partially due to their own narrow-mindedness.
I hope you pay this much attention to politics in your own country as you do to politics in ours.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
