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Tuesday,
January 31, 2006
Must...not...throw things...at screen...
Yes, I'm listening to the State of the Union -- joined it halfway in progress, which is probably all for the best. Bush just preened about how abstinence-only and adoption programs have reduced the number of abortions and teen pregnancies. No, you wanker, good sex ed programs and access to birth control have reduced the number of abortions and teen pregnancies, whereas abstinence-only programs have led to an increase of VD because kids figure that unprotected anal or oral sex "don't count." As for adoptions, what percentage of those adoptions include children of color, hey?
Aaaand he's just shut off the future of bioresearch in the US. Oh, my bleeding piles. "Faith-based groups" will be handing out AIDS medicine. And if you don't belong to a member of those faith-based groups? Gahhhhhh.
Must...not...vomit...
And for a more completist review, Peter David has a brilliant play-by-play on the SotU.
On the other hand, at least I know how to reduce my stress levels
From Slate:
Being touched by your husband relieves stress. In a study, as women waited for electric shocks, scans of their brains showed high activity in regions that anticipate pain and regulate negative emotions. The activity subsided when a stranger touched their hands, but subsided far more when their husbands did so. "Supercouples" who scored highest on closeness in a questionnaire got the biggest reductions. This matches previous research that showed 1) seeing a picture of someone who recently rejected you causes pain, and 2) blisters take longer to heal during marital discord. Researchers' conclusion: Maybe stress reduction is why married folks are healthier than singles.
Of course, one wonders why the wives agreed to be subjected to electric shocks in the first place...