Bored meme

step 1: listen to all your songs on random
step 2: post the first line from the first 20 songs
step 3: let everyone you know guess and post what song and artist the lines come from.
step 4: cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly
step 5: looking them up on google is cheating

EDIT: Pencils down! Time's up! Answers for the unguessed in bold.

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Political foo: Reading time at school

Two princes wed in a fairy tale read to children at school.

The school superintendant's response when parents got upset? "This district is committed to teaching children about the world they live in. Seven-year-olds see gay people."

I just wish the schools could stick to facts. They gypped me plenty when I was in. Looks like the next generation may be getting even less real information. If it's something that's seen every day, why are you teaching kids it exists? Except you're not. You're teaching kids that gay marriage is just like all other kinds of marriage, including the kissing and living happily ever after.

I don't know how I would have reacted if the school my kids were going to did something like this. I guess it's something I need to start thinking about. A lot.

Scary stuff

What is bioethics?

Very long. So far, I'm through to section VIII.

EDIT: It's pretty scary, but it takes a while to realize what all is being talked about. There's some jargon and medical terminology, and lots and lots of names and dates that tend to blur together.

Just earlier today, before finding this link and reading this, I was pondering the actual ethics of in-vitro fertilization. It's a question that first came up in my mind with the debate over stem cells, specifically embryonic stem cells and obtaining them to do experiments in the first place.

I might post more at length later about the problems I saw cropping up in that context.