Archive for the 'Adventures in Missing the Point' Category



A good leader will face the music, even though he may turn his back on the crowd.

Casual sex is, in fact, a serious health risk.

A new, probably fraudulent, study showed that twins who had sex earlier had lower levels of delinquency and antisocial behavior a few years later, not more.  The article mentions that policymakers and psychologists hold that early sex, say at 14, makes a teenager more likely to have academic problems, commit crimes, drink, smoke and suffer [...]

The Catholic League serves a purpose, but sometimes it doesn’t quite get it. In a July 24 news release the organization describes what it calls Jay Leno’s “obsession.” Apparently the Tonight Show host has ridiculed Catholic priests six times in the past five weeks. The jokes, as reported by the Catholic League, were:
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Unnecessary synthetic hormones don’t just affect a woman’s period.

Overall, more women will begin to experience migraines after starting oral contraception and this would indicate that there is probably a link between the two.

I hope you remember the silliness in New York City of a couple months ago. City officials decided to release a new line of NYC subway-themed condoms “to help curb the spread of HIV.” Now remember this is sexually-repressed New York, the residents of which have probably never even heard of condoms, much less know [...]

…but even environmentalists like their contraceptives.
The EPA has been finding intersex fish in Boulder (Colorado) Creek. The culprit? Synthetic hormones from contraceptives. Not that this is anything new, but what is frustrating is the inaction of environmental activists who spout the usual rhetoric. Said one Sierra Club representative, “For many people it’s an economic necessity. [...]

A recent article by Jeff Fecke begins:
I know the St. Paul Crowne Plaza Riverfront hotel like the back of my hand. It used to be the base hotel for the Minnesota YMCA Youth in Government program, in which I participated as a student and adult volunteer. I spent better than a month of my life [...]