Let's Get Dumber By The Minute

Making sure everyone who would like to get a college education at least has a chance to try is a
good thing for public policy.
But we can't expect the Saint to know that. He doesn't know the possible snobbishness of having
three degrees and seven kids.
Most Americans couldn't begin to afford any of that.
President Obama hasn't mandated anyone go to university unless they'd like a chance to go.
For the middle class, college is practically a rite of passage for a definite percentage of high school
grads.
Some young people do give up many mystical ideals when starting a college sojourn; but once they have families of their own, they definitely get back to church in predictable numbers.
The thing is, the Saint doesn't have a divinity degree. And President Obama, unlike the Saint,
doesn't pretend to have one.
I'm beginning to think this Saint is only running for the Republican presidential nomination
as a way of proselytizing for his faith.
He should know, however, that if he doesn't shut up soon, and in the meantime refrain from talking about throwing up, not only will people not consider converting to Catholicism for generations to come, some Catholics may consider leaving the church so as not to have to think of
themselves as 'crazy'.
By the way Mr. three degrees, I am not a 'bla' person. I've never even heard of one.

Dirty Old Men

What is with these dirty old mainly WASPY types of legislators legislating the wombs of their
grandchildren?
They themselves have gotten all the use in the world of birth control and abortion. The mathematics of the number of abortions since Roe v. Wade proves as much. Not only atheists and
unfaithful have gotten all the procedures we know have been done, and bought all the birth control sold in this country.
Now that these old dried up phonies have made a gazillion dollars off women's health, but have
no more need of many of the things they made plenty use of for themselves, they want laws in
place which won't deter them in what they themselves wanted to achieve in the timetables of their twenties, thirties, and early forties; they think they should get all transvaginal with their grandchildren.
If they are so worried about the private parts of our young women, why don't they just go to church and get down on their rickety old knees and try to pray.
Otherwise, they could get their moldy old minds off women's private parts, or keep them on the
private parts of women their own ages.
Republican women aren't very worried I guess, thinking they will always have the money to get
whatever anyway. I don't know about that. Don't they want their daughters to have an autonomy
money doesn't need to buy?

HeLa

This morning's MHP(Melissa Harris Perry) show on MSNBC was golden. Finally after all these years I got to see Professor Anita Hill speak live and in person again. She is still soft-spoken. She's still assertive. She's still learned. I feel so lucky to have heard her views again , on some very important issues.

I find it significant that she chose the Melissa Harris Perry show, and of course that the MHP show even exists. I count myself so lucky to have seen this in my lifetime. As a feminist, it helps

me envision an intelligent future in which my grandchildren can live.

After listening to the drivel spoken about and made issue of in the Republican presidential

primaries these past several months, I have told myself if I am going to listen to cable news, I

do deserve something dignified and intellectual once in a while.

On that same Sunday morning show, Professor Perry highlighted the famous HeLa cells.

I first learned of these powerful cells in a Harvard Medical School newsletter in the eighties. Before reading about these cells, I thought all cervical cancers were alike, or very similar. After reading about them, I realized some cervical cancers are as deadly and quickly killing as a 'terrible

swift sword'.

Some are benign enough if caught early. But some are like HeLa. From their start to their finish,

they could kill a person dead within six months of suspicious pap onset, even with all the medicines and chemotherapies in the world.

I imagine we've made advances since the eighties; yet since the advent of AIDS, even yeast infections can and do kill women who are HIV positive.

I do think Henrietta Lacks descendants have a right to renumeration if her cells have been used

all these years to further research and to generate monies. This has been going on since 1951, and

has helped eradicate polio. Not all polio vaccines were sold without profit, for instance.

Ms. Lacks was not a cadaver from the free clinic, was not a donation to science, not a lady destined for a Potter's burial. She had a family. Why would medical profiteers not acknowledge

a debt owed her descendants.

When I first read of these cells, my advice to my children was to get regular exams by a gynecologist when they grew up, and to remember their mom didn't believe virgins got cervical

cancer, even though medicine doesn't agree it is an STD.

Of course, medicine rarely called anything an STD unless it caused great physical distress to men.

Afghani Citizens

You have a timeless world wide religion. Your religion cannot be burned. Your faith cannot be
burned. Your Quran is a book. It is not your theology. Therefore, you may want to stop screaming,
and begin to pray. While at prayer, pray for those who did this awful thing. Then we could all have
more peace than any of us may deserve.

Solon Is Reborn!

Greece has been absolved of 142B of its debt. So say we one, so say we all. The die has been cast.
The deed is done. And as in the 6th century B.C.- the right course has been set upon once more for that ancient nation state.
Now if we halve U.S. student debt, the whole world will have a start on the road to being set right again.

Ugh!

With all this talk of whether I should be the one making decisions about my own womb, my own
body, I nearly forgot to mourn missing out on two of the most important parts of Catholicism:
paczki day- fat Tuesday, and Ash Wednesday. I got a bad flu Monday night. So naturally
I got no paczkis on Tuesday. I used to be recovered in a day. Not any longer. At one point I
actually fainted. I was back to my senses Wednesday, but got a little hurt in the fall from the faint, so got no ashes.
Drat!

Ayatollah Santorum

Are we supposed to be shoving our religious beliefs down everyone else's throats?

Are we supposed to be living in a theocracy?

President Obama is not a preacher. He doesn't need a theology, right?

Are Catholic Bishops the arbiters of every Catholic conscience every minute of the day?

Catholics are free to live and work in a secular society.

If Catholic citizens and officials are intent on running hospitals and schools, it's best they run them according to U.S. law.

If there are Catholics who don't care for U.S. law, then they are a group who don't have to run businesses. They are a church. If they like, they are free to stick to faith and doctrine. Let some group who wants to be legal run businesses and schools.

Cool?