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Ever wonder where the symbol for a heart came from? Obviously it doesn't look like the biological organ, so where did it come from?

An interesting book I'm reading, Alien Hand Syndrome, has an answer. It's the shape of the seed of the silphium or laserwort plant, which was used — get this — as 7th century B.C. to first century A.D. birth control (and abortifacient). People think of pharmaceutical contraceptives as a modern invention but the ancients had them too. Unfortunately the plant in question grew in only a narrow strip of land and defied cultivation; the lust of the world drove it to extinction. Deo gratias.

But I'm never going to look at the heart symbol the same way again.

I continue to be amazed and nauseated by the sheer volume of ubiquitous breast cancer awareness messages I now see in daily life. Enough, people! No disease in the history of mankind (note ironic use of language) has gotten the attention this disease has received. I continue to ask why breast cancer of all diseases deserves such attention. Ten times more people died in 2006 from heart disease than breast cancer. Cancer of the lower GI is far more prevalent.

And to think, if women stopped contracepting with the Pill, the epidemic might end.

Interesting that I never heard in the news about the death of a pro-life protester. I bet if it was a pro-abortion protester it would have been all over the news.

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.

Pro-life former senator Rick Santorum is said to be testing the presidential waters in Iowa. I think he would prove to be an excellent candidate and I look forward to seeing how this all turns out.