Bloodless Coup

Stupid Bullshit Seen and Heard on My Trip to the Beach

1. Laura Bush: We need to get the message to girls everywhere, not just in Africa, that they have a choice, that they can be abstinent and make choices for themselves that keep themselves safe.

Laura disregards that safe choices for women are often not an option:

But there is bad news, too: The HIV/AIDS prevention strategies have stunningly failed African women and girls. Rape of women and children by partners, husbands, relatives, neighbors and strangers has put hundreds of thousands at risk of violent transmission of HIV.

Medical experts have shown a clear association between HIV exposure and coerced sex. Wives who suffer violence if they request condom use or faithfulness are at higher risk of AIDS than unmarried women and girls.

In fact, marriage, one of the key features of the ABC plan she is pushing, is a risk factor, especially for young women who lack power in marriages with older husbands.

2. The State of Virginia: License plate slogan? "Fight Terrorism." Yeah. Right after I "Choose Life," I'll get right on that.

3. Dumbass parked in the high speed lane on I-40 with his right hand clasping his cell phone tightly to his ear, and the left hand perched on top of his head, ruffling his hair.

4. "Rutledge: A Southern Heritage Gated Community." What, all the houses have stars and bars trim?

5. Brain seizure stoplights. The red light has a flashing circular strobe around the rim of the redlight. I thought I would either have a seizure, or be seized by the urge to hop out of my car and dance.

6. Drunken idiot yelling "Play something good Patterson! This is gay! during Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife, a sad, moving song about the brutal murder of friends of the band.

And, last but not least...

7. Hideous beach "cottages."

It's hard to really tell how awful these hulking monstrosities are, and they are all the worse because they dwarf and shadow the old fashioned cuties that still dot the area:

And that's what I was thinking about instead of blogging last week.

Posted by binky at June 27, 2007 11:22 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Random Thoughts