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Meredith Schwartz ([personal profile] stakebait) wrote2004-03-10 10:22 am

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A good cause doesn't make you a good poet. *cringe*

If you've been upset in the past when your political opponents take your polls? Don't announce the new poll to everyone that took the old ones. This announcement brought to you by the letter duh and the number d'oh.

Oddly for completely unrelated reasons I have a sudden intense desire for a song on the dangers of self-selected samples. Something catchy.

Study shows abstinence pledge no help in fighting STDs. Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] cyan_blue for the link.

Does anyone have a transcript of Joss' interview on NPR yesterday? And do you know if it's got spoilers?

[livejournal.com profile] flowery_twat has interesting thoughts on the morality of understanding and remembering evil. I can feel something inside stirring in response, but it hasn't actually made it to words yet.

Astronauts win.

[identity profile] soundingsea.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
I listened to the interview and posted a link to the segment in my LJ. No Angel spoilers.
ext_1771: Joe Flanigan looking A-Dorable. (ooops by ajcleenwe)

[identity profile] monanotlisa.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
Re: that announcement? I was thinking the same thing; then again, it shows they are not in possession of an Evil!Gay!Sympathiser!Filter...

Speaking of the AFA, is it wrong for me as a Christian to snort out loud when reading this on their page?

Organizations and ministries such as Pure Life Ministries, based in Dry Ridge, Kentucky, have been seeing a dramatic increase in the number of women seeking help in breaking free from sexual sin.

::is twelve::

study

[identity profile] chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
I think a better title for this one would have been "study shows pledge is no help (or not much)". The last line of the article is a bullet-point that says "99 percent of non-pledgers and 88 percent of pledgers have sex before marriage." If 88% of pledgers don't keep the pledge, what's the point? Or does this mean that they've already caught the STDs before they pledge?

[identity profile] mpoetess.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
Cavemen win, because they mate with the astronauts, and spread their genes out into the population, secretly becoming the astronauts, so slowly that no one realizes or remembers.

[identity profile] wackinessensues.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
The first link is now 404, ha. See what you did?

NPR should have the Joss transcript up by now, and no there were no spoilers in the interview.

Side note, last night's meeting in Portland resulted in a decision to meet again in two weeks to discuss the Gay Marriage issue at greater length. Gay couples are still getting married in Multnomah County today.

I was going to reply to the abstinence thing

[identity profile] kuzibah.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 10:00 am (UTC)(link)
But I realized I was rambling on, so I posted it in my own lj. [livejournal.com profile] kuzibah

And thanks for the links.

[identity profile] rivkat.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
The dangers are ample/
With a self-selected sample

Give me time; I might do better.

[identity profile] cadhla.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 10:17 am (UTC)(link)
Last night, I caught up on the three most recent episodes of 'Angel'.

Neither side wins. The cavemen go underground to keep from having rocks dropped on their heads, and they all die in horrible earthquakes. The astronauts stay in orbit to avoid the cavemen, and they run out of air.

Fairies win.
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[personal profile] vaspider 2004-03-10 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Re: the first. Ahem. Ye{.

I guess I just have a tendency to be over-polite.

[identity profile] miggy.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I reacted like you to the, urm, poetry: wince faintly, say nothing, close the window.