Hilarious.

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Apropos to the discussion of former state Rep. Tom Armstrong’s halfway house for sex offenders, and the hullaballoo which followed it from Conestoga to Marietta.
Florida, like Pennsylvania, has laws about where sex offenders can live. Local communities passed their own laws:
Florida, like many states, barred offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools, parks, playgrounds, […]

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True love waits. Apparently, in abstinence pants.
But does it come with chastity belt and padlock?

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And so here we have the American Life League, gearing up for a big protest (they hope) on June 7 titled, “The PILL KILLS,” the idea being that birth-control pills don’t merely prevent unwanted pregnancies but actually can act as abortifacents. And therefore, on that basis, it should be banned.
But, as usual for such folks, […]

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We do know the GOP likes to claim it’s the “party of ideas.” Too bad they wage war on actual thought.

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Era will sell a few newspapers today with this story, front and center. And it’s a good story, about how “dozens” of area women are advertising “erotic services” on Craigslist, which even we here in Lancaster County can now use.
A good story and an amusing one, because Jack Brubaker had to call a few of […]

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This can’t possibly be true.
(Ruffles through mental rolodex: Larry Craig, Mark Foley. Ted Haggard)
Well, OK, maybe it could be - but at this point, only Larry Flynt seems to know for sure.

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Via ThinkProgress, they’re for it and against it at the same time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whYi8sCF5Pg

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Only one member of Congress earmarks money for abstinence education. Guess which state he represents?
Specter views the abstinence earmarks as a response to “a significant segment of his constituency, which he believes is entitled to implement programs most consistent with their values,” the senator’s chief of staff, Scott Hoeflich, said in a statement.
But those familiar […]

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You’ve seen, probably, that Larry Flynt says he’s got about 30 “solid” names of pols and other notables connected to the D.C. Madam - and he was “shocked, especially, at one Senator.”
Which leads to all sorts of speculation. Brownback? Lieberman?
Santorum?
Well, he’s not a Senator anymore. And God doesn’t like me that much.

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Interesting piece in the NYTimes on the future of abstinence education, given that a recent, comprehensive study found “no sign that it delayed a teenager’s sexual debut” - and thus, some states are beginning to turn away from the program.
I suppose as a good liberal I’m supposed to sneer at abstinence education, but in fact […]

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And so here we have the Washington Post noting that our new friend, Louisiana Rep. David Vitter, actually took calls from ”D.C. Madam” Deborah Jeanne Palfrey during House votes.
I’m picturing Clinton on the phone, Monica beneath the desk. I thought family values types abhorred this stuff. Maybe not. But it does make you wonder how it went: 
WE MUST PROTECT THE SANCTITY OF…
***brrrrring****
Uh, […]

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Louisiana Republican Senator - Rudy Giuliani’s southern regional chair! - fesses up to “very serious sin” involving D.C. Madam.
Do we even need to mention he was a big defender of the sanctity of marriage? Or does that, at this stage, go without saying?
Update: Glenn Greenwald notes that Vitter was in fact one of the chief sponsors of […]

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This is unbelievable. Both Fox and CBS have rejected an advertisement for Trojan condoms, specifically because the ad in question suggests condoms can and should be used to prevent unwanted pregnancy:
Both had accepted Trojan’s previous campaign, which urged condom use because of the possibility that a partner might be H.I.V.-positive, perhaps unknowingly. A 2001 report […]

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