Well, yeah. It is a very fine ass to cover. It should take some work to do so.
Okay, we have gone from AIDS to my ass, and I am getting sort of uncomfortable with the trend.
I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.
Riley ,'Lessons'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Gus - Aug 16, 2006 8:30:22 pm PDT #894 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Strega - Aug 16, 2006 8:37:44 pm PDT #895 of 10001
My thread's the AIDS thread. Nice.Let's see: blood, needles, sex, and death? Sounds like Minearverse to me.
DavidS - Aug 16, 2006 8:48:01 pm PDT #896 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It should take some work to do so.
::gets out the tarp::
Let's see: blood, needles, sex, and death? Sounds like Minearverse to me.
Have there been a lot of needles in the Minearverse? I remember River getting poked a few times.
Gus - Aug 16, 2006 8:50:51 pm PDT #897 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
blood, needles, sex, and death
My nomination for the next Minear thread title.
Kevin - Aug 17, 2006 2:44:59 am PDT #898 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
My nomination for the next Minear thread title.
Ditto. Possibly adding condoms, because they're always funny.
CaBil - Aug 17, 2006 5:36:03 am PDT #899 of 10001
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Strega, right now I am checking Buffistas once, maybe twice a day. So I just saw your comments. I am staring at a deadline, but give me a day or two and I may be able to organize my thoughts into a more coherent whole...
Trudy Booth - Aug 17, 2006 6:45:37 am PDT #900 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Hey, in this country,some think telling teens that to avoid getting knocked up (or stds or vds or whatever the latest term is), they should just abstain. That's really working.
Yeah, and there's a push for American funded AIDS prevention overseas to do likewise. It's pretty terrifying. Uganda (I think) had really been succeeding with this campaign ABC (Abstenaince, Be Faithful, Condom) and now its being questioned by us. Brilliant, just brilliant.
Maybe Tim could have zombies eat the fundies...
Aims - Aug 17, 2006 6:55:55 am PDT #901 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Hey, in this country,some think telling teens that to avoid getting knocked up (or stds or vds or whatever the latest term is), they should just abstain. That's really working.
I did one of my papers on this last semester. Not surprisingly, out of the countries that teach sex education in school, the US still has the highest rate of teen pregnancy. Sweden, I think, has the lowest. Why? BECAUSE THEY TALK ABOUT SEX! They teach kids that yes, it's for mature people who can handle the consequences, but if you have teh sex, here's any type pf birth control you can get, here's how to use it.
$17 million is being spent on abstinence only programs, most of which are taught in the south. The south was the only region the US that didn't have a more than 20% drop in teen pregnancy rates between 1991 and 2003.
And don't get me started on what those programs get wrong.
In conclusion, I agree with zombies.
t /hijacking thread
§ ita § - Aug 17, 2006 7:19:12 am PDT #902 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm still reeling at the idea that if only someone had told everyone to wear condoms, then we wouldn't have hardly the AIDS problem we do.
Typo Boy - Aug 17, 2006 7:59:00 am PDT #903 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I'm still reeling at the idea that if only someone had told everyone to wear condoms, then we wouldn't have hardly the AIDS problem we do.
Probably only slightly exaggerated though - if done in the right way. Cause there are lots of ways to put forward that message that it won't be listened to. (And it has to done in tandem in things like making condoms available in some way that you can pick them up without being shamed. And you have discourage the idea that only "bad people" carry condoms, cause good people won't ever do anything that require them.) But yeah if widespread condom use had been encouraged as soon as we dected aids, then yeah, we would not have anything like as large a problem . "Hardly any" - I don't know. Another big chunk is needle sharing among drug users - so you need needle exchanges and either decriminalization, or at least tacit tolerance in certain areas with free needles as part of the package.
If we had has someone less socially conservative than Reagan as President durning the early days of the aids epidemic, we might well have done stuff not only in the U.S. but worldwide that would have cut aids in half at least -maybe by more than that. From stuff you've let slip I gather your mother has expertise in public health. Don't know if she has ever done stuff specifically in the HIV area, but I'll bet she's at least somewhat familiar with literaterature. Ask her; I'll bet she says the same.