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[Michael <michael AT metalab.unc.edu>]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Chad Ingham wrote:

> But the report does bring to light some objective scientific facts that may 
> be incorrect.  I doubt the amount of time and money invested in the report 
> was worth it to correct these few true factual flaws but, hey, tax money is 
> free money.

Right - because little things like, I dunno, HIV being spread through 
sweat and pregnancy being caused by touching someone's genitals and half 
the gay teens in the country being HIV positive are such minor, minor 
issues.  I mean, jeez, why bother with the details?  It's the big picture 
we should be concerned with here, isn't it?

I am agape - my mouth is literally hanging open in abject shock - as I 
type this.  I cannot believe the idea of there being wildly inaccurate 
information about sex, pregnancy and the spread of STDs - things which 
are NOT "values," they are hard, scientific facts produced through 
decades of study - would be disregarded as such a piffle, so minor, so 
unworthy of attention.  I'm so terribly sorry there's a congressman who 
wants to spend some of your tax dollars to keep you or your kid or your 
neighbor's kid from {knocking someone up,getting knocked up,getting an 
STD,giving someone an STD}.  Heavens!  Such wastefulness!  Such 
impropriety!

Can someone pass the pork?  I need another appropriation for the Alabama 
Sports Hall of Fame.  Who can think of health issues, man, when they's 
'BAMA football at stake!?

Shrill?  You betcha.  Welcome to the new theocracy.  It's like _1984_ got 
religion.  If anybody needs me, I'll just be in the bathroom being sick.

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