Good Old Neon

Confirmed, it is. From Wikipedia: A purity ball (also known as a father-daughter purity ball[1] or purity wedding[2]) is a formal event attended by fathers and their daughters. Purity balls promote virginity until marriage for teenaged girls, and are often closely associated with U.S. Christian churches, particularly fundamentalist churches. Purity balls can vary in many particulars, but fathers who attend typically pledge to protect their young daughters' purity in mind, body and soul. Daughters are expected to remain virgins, abstaining from pre-marital sexual intercourse. A stronger

Is that part of that creepy Christian movement thing where, like, daughters pledge their undying virginity to their dads before they then go and blow every guy in high school?

Andrew Sullivan: I think it's now fair to say it's a war. My view is that after the McCain peeps had made that crazy decision and realized after the fact what they had on their hands, they put their best face on it. They knew that the normal rules for a veep - a press conference, full media accessibility, airing of all the biographical details - would have required the candidate to quit before November. So they tried to shield her from actual democracy - a dangerous decision for the rest of us, but a rational, cynical decision for a campaign running a delusional liar as the potential next pr

Agreed

Moms are the best - good luck to your mom!!!!

Or, as is looking likely, the party will sink further into the mire of right wing religious fundamentalism and straight up nuttiness

Cutting off the nose to spite the face is an expression that comes to mind.

The future of the Republican Party rests squarely on its ability (or inability) to wrest control back from the religious fundamentalists. As I

True, but unfortunately, our would be Vice President does.

Awesome

Christopher Hitchens from today's Slate: Sarah Palin's War on Science The GOP ticket's appalling contempt for knowledge and learning. In an election that has been fought on an astoundingly low cultural and intellectual level, with both candidates pretending that tax cuts can go like peaches and cream with the staggering new levels of federal deficit, and paltry charges being traded in petty ways, and with Joe the Plumber becoming the emblematic stupidity of the campaign, it didn't seem possible that things could go any lower or get any dumber. But they did last Friday, when, at a speech

god fucking christ....

Lawyers are a little like cops I guess, they all suck until you need one.

...... Palin's 'going rogue,' McCain aide says ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (CNN) -- With 10 days until Election Day, long-brewing tensions between GOP vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin and key aides to Sen. John McCain have become so intense, they are spilling out in public, sources say. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at a rally in Sioux City, Iowa, on Saturday. Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin "going rogue." A Palin associate, however, said the candidate is simply trying to "bus

Further evidence of the decline of western civilization? Joe the Plumber open to 2010 run Joe Wurzelbacher said he may run for Congress in 2010.(CNN)

Yeah, I guess about as dumb as believing that a god, the creator of the universe, would hate the pill (candy and soft drinks????) and condoms. I won't comment on whether or not they are are too stupid to live. I

I posted this earlier, I'll post it again: Richard Sloan, professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, said the pharmacy should refer people to other stores that will dispense birth control, adding that not doing so "appears to violate any number of professional codes of ethics of the American Pharmacists Association." Sloan said, "The central element is that the pharmacy must place the well-being of the patient over the pharmacist's personal well-being"

Whoops, sorry about that - I'll go back and remove my post.

I think you

So, you

In general, of course, but I think a case could be made for requiring pharmacies to provide all available prescription drugs

Correct, and I