i'm less excited about the strawberry-flavored one than i am about the glow-in-the-dark one

1. this entry is in memory of the kate, who as far as i know isn't dead but might as well be because she never updates her diary anymore. probably because she's married to a man who once bought her the last 900 mr. freeze pops in the entire toronto area because they were about to go out of season. but that's just a guess.

2. there was a bomb threat here at the university yesterday. there was an e-mail sent out. there were buildings evacuated. there were classes cancelled.

3. and nobody took it seriously. and of course when i say "nobody" i mean nobody in the student body, because the university had no choice but to take it seriously, especially after the shooting at virginia tech.

4. speaking of the shooting at virginia tech, i wish everybody would leave the students (and the staff, for that matter) at virginia tech alone and stop acting like they understand and empathize with what they're going through right now. because they don't understand. they can't empathize. so back off.

5. moving on. tonight bryan and i went to an event co-sponsored by SHADE (sexual health awareness and disease education) and CASH (campus atheists and secular humanists) about abstinence-only sex education and the right's strategic manipulation of sexual health information.

6. for example, there's a christian organization on campus whose very name - "women of virtue" - absolutely drips of condescension, and they regularly post misinformation on their bulletin board. my two all-time favorites are "there is no clinical proof that condoms are effective" and "according to a study released by the mayo clinic, birth control pills cause breast cancer, and oh, by the way, they diminish sex drive, too." which begs the question, why would good christians, who are supposed to have sex for purely procreative purposes (alliteration!) and not derive any sort of pleasure whatsoever from sex, give two shits about loss of libido, anyway? why not post "god is behind birth control pills 100%, because with them you can resist the temptation to have sex" instead? my theory is that they realize that the "truth" won't sway us hedonists and that they have to instead appeal to us on our level.

7. in case you were wondering, the "women of virtue" misrepresent the mayo clinic study they cite, although i won't get into why here.

8. at the end of the event, SHADE passed out free glow-in-the-dark and flavored condoms (bryan flipped out over the banana-flavored condoms until it occurred to him that he's not the one who sucks cock in this relationship). oh man, was i excited. what a steal.