Abstinence Only, Except for Me

Today Bodhi will mix the personal and the political. Britney Spears' 16-year-old sister is pregnant, and plans to keep the baby. Hilariously, this teenager with child is urging other girls not to engage in premarital sex. Lil' Jamie Lynn says, "I definitely don't think it's something you should do; it's better to wait." Or, if you do engage in premarital sex, howz about you use birth control?
The Centers for Disease Control reported last week that the teenage pregnancy rate in the United States is on the rise, after fourteen years of decline. Is it a coincidence that the Bush administration has been requiring schools to teach "abstinence only" education in order to get federal funding? Bodhi thinks lil' Jamie Lynn is the perfect example of why this doesn't work. She believes in saving herself for marriage, except for when she's having unprotected sex with her boyfriend. Does anyone really think a baby raised by two teenagers in Louisiana is a good thing?
Oh, and Bodhi seems to recall that Jamie Lynn's big sis was all about saving herself for marriage. And we all know how that turned out.

I Don't Heart Huckabee

Wow. Mike Huckabee is standing by his statement from 1990 about people living with HIV and AIDS. He told the Associated Press that "we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague." Bodhi is just curious, who would've taken care of the babies and small children who were HIV positive? What about the people who looked healthy? Would there have been mandatory testing for high risk groups? Who would've paid for that? What if people refused to be tested...would they be jailed? And who would pay for all the new jails we would have to build to imprison people who refused mandatory testing?
You know, we've had seven years of "leadership" from a man with small, ignorant, and hateful views. Bodhi really doesn't want to go down this road again.

Words From The Greatest President That Should Be Heeded By The Worst

"Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite."

--Abraham Lincoln