Saturday, February 18, 2012

Fine. I'll explain it.

I can't listen to NPR for half an hour without someone completely missing the point, so I guess I'm left to be the interpreter.  With the caveat that it's probably not a suitable joke for Andrea Mitchell's show... here's the explanation.

You put the aspirin between your knees, see?  And then the only way for the aspirin to stay there is for your knees to stay together, see?  This would greatly reduce the chances that you'll be penetrated by a phallus, see?  Ergo, the aspirin between the knees works almost perfectly as a form of birth control.

I can accept the fact that people express phony outrage at a tired old joke.  Just the way the game is played.

What's a little less acceptable is the fact that people are pretending that anyone in this country is trying to prevent women (or men, I suppose) from getting contraceptives.  That's a non-issue in this day and age and everyone knows it.  The issue is whether or not you force churches to pay for it.  For all the lectures that I've had to endure about the "wall of separation" from these shitheads, they sure do seem to enjoy using the state to impose its will on the Church.
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