Today was "Blasphemy Day", a day when, shall we say, organized irreligion encourages people to take their best shots against God. It is timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Danish cartoon of Mohammad that caused such a stir a few years ago. Let us make reparation to God for these blasphemies and pray for those involved.
News Clips: September 2009 Archives
Tufts University, responding to some complaints from students, banned student sex in the presence of roommates.
Is this how far we've fallen that universities have to make explicit that it's inappropriate to have sex in front of your roommate when they object? Of course, it's inappropriate to have sex in front of your roommate anyway, and for that matter inappropriate to have sex when not married, but the fact that students complained that their roommates were having sex in front of them just leaves me aghast.
A French epidemiologist, René Ecochard, backs the pope's assessment of the efficacy of condom campaigns in countries with large cases of AIDS. He said that the condom issue has become a "prisoner of ideology" and there is a "lack of realism". "All epidemiologists agree today that the campaigns to distribute [condoms] in countries where the proportion of affected people is very high, do not work," he says. The problem is, condoms fail often enough that in places where 25% of the population are infected, it simply doesn't work.
You may remember this controversial exhibit of real human cadavers processed with what they called "plastinization" turning them into preserved objects of scientific study, much like the models you might have seen in years' past in the science museum. Well now they want to portray those cadavers in sex acts. Can it get any worse than this?
