One of the aspects of our political system is the way it relishes expertise. Our elected representatives, senators, governors, and President, are all of the highest caliber. The best and the brightest. Experts in the art of governance. Honest men and women who always put the health of the country over the finances of their friends. The witnesses called to testify before these august legislators, providing expert advice, aid immeasurably. And, in the United States Congress, this process has been on display this week during testimony before the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Read the rest of this entry ?
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Pope Wrong Again
17 March, 2009The Catholic Church does not like birth control. If a man gets his vas cut, cauterized, folded and stapled, he is sinning. If a woman takes the pill, she is sinning. If a teenage boy shows that he is not a pig by using a condom, he is sinning. This is the churches position: abstention, unless you are trying to create a baby (which brings up the question of whether abstention is birth control). Because we should always take sexual advice from septuagenarian virgins wearing silly clothes. Of course, when people with no experience in reproductive health jump in, bad things happen. Read the rest of this entry ?
(((Billy))) The Atheist 