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1. #1 Bla

   December 20, 2006

   You wonder what the wingnuttery will do?

   This one is too easy….

   They’ll call for the dismantling of the Guttmacher Institute, brick by brick, and then will run a little experiment of their own:

   They’ll seek to toss all of its researchers into the pond, to see which ones float.

2. #2 sparc

   December 20, 2006

   I wonder what the right-wing nutjobs will make of this.

   I’d rather wonder if their premarital sex was so bad

3. #3 Buffalo Gal

   December 20, 2006

   Since expecting voluntary compliance with abstinence isn’t working, we need to start enforcing it. First, strict separation of the sexes in all spheres of life. This is easiest to do if women are confined to the home. Second, government-mandated monitoring of everyone’s genitals for signs of sexual activity. This is easiest to keep track of in women, as an intact hymen is proof of abstinence.

   The first is already on the rightwing religious nuts’ agenda; I’m sure the second will be suggested soon.

4. #4 Michael Schmidt

   December 20, 2006

   “Any time I see numbers that high, I’m a little suspicious,” she said. “The numbers are too pat.”

   Yeah, that’s what Bush said about the Iraqi war epidemiology, too. “Those numbers can’t be right, because I don’t like them!”

5. #5 Julian

   December 21, 2006

   The important question is how much of the premarital sex involved people who eventually got married. I remember reading in Scientific American a few years ago that a lot of the premarital sex was of this kind.

   (You’d be surprised at the number of ordinary Western men who still value an intact hymen in their future wife.)

6. #6 PCD

   December 21, 2006

   Research comparing marriage and birth records for New York in the early 1900′s show that 2/3rds of the first born were 3 month+ premies.

7. #7 khan

   December 21, 2006

   My father was born in 1927, 6 months after his parents married.

   My older brother was born in 1947, 6 months after our parents married.

8. #8 Blader

   December 21, 2006

   “(You’d be surprised at the number of ordinary Western men who still value an intact hymen in their future wife.)”

   And yet the data would suggest that these same ordinary men place little value on hymen integrity in women who will become future wives of other men.

9. #9 Julian

   December 21, 2006

   Julian: You’d be surprised at the number of ordinary Western men who still value an intact hymen in their future wife.

   Blader: And yet the data would suggest that these same ordinary men place little value on hymen integrity in women who will become future wives of other men.

   Julian: Of course they don’t. That’s another man’s bad luck. Male competition at work. And I can understand not wanting to go where other men have already been.

10. #10 MacTurk

    December 8, 2010

    Our society has always been sinking into a slough of depravity and lust. And it is still here

    Western Civilization has always been declining. And it is still here.

    Part of being a right wing idiot is being able to assume, ignoring all contrary evidence, that TODAY! NOW! is uniquely, heartbreakingly wrong, and the only cure is to abandon logic and hope and embrace the inner loon. And suppress, oppress, depress, and repress women, because female sexuality is soooooooo yucky. And we have to control it! So there!

    Historical ignorance is not a bug, it is part of their original design spec. Oh, and being horrified by the idea that people might actually be having fun, with or without sex.

11. #11 Bob Hogan

    January 15, 2011

    At first I was a little perturbed by all the political rants in a science oriented feed but you’ve won me over.. You are like Dennis Miller’s antibody.. keep up the good ranting I love it.. You’ve picked up a new fan.

    Bob Hogan

12. #12 feralboy12

    April 18, 2011

    Perhaps it would sound better to the wingnuts if we reframed the question in terms of unlimited drilling in formerly protected wetlands.