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REDIRECT ALERT! (Scroll down past this mess if you're trying to read an archived post. Thanks. No, really, thanks.)

Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.


Thursday, February 21, 2002

Hey Secretary Dulles--Ribbed or Smooth?
James Lileks' Newhouse column which explores the arguments associated with turning the hose pipe on them dogs in the back yard.

[...] The moral right loves abstinence; the cultural left thinks it's the sexual equivalent of creationism. We cannot prevent 14-year-olds from coupling like bunnies in a centrifuge, the argument goes; in some perfect world they'll wait until they're 15 to have sex, but who are we to play Taliban and crowbar the kids apart? Well, someone should. Kids deserve a childhood that doesn't skid off the cliff into premature adulthood, but American culture works to remove innocence, not preserve it.


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