25 % of men leave public restrooms without washing their hands. 10 % of women do. Therefore, it's probably a good idea to use a paper towel to protect your hand from the door handle when you leave...there's not telling what germs were left there by the previous person. For example, "...viruses can stay alive for two hours on hands, and for 20 minutes on hard, dry surfaces those germy hands touch." The most delinquent hand washers were at the Braves' baseball stadium in Atlanta, where 37 % of men left without washing.
We live in a culture that so exploits sexuality that little kids grow up in a red-light district, even suburban and small town kids. Kids get wired early on into sexual roles, girls of 9 and 10 dress like streetwalkers, and it isn't left-wing academics who are selling this to them, it is corporate America, and it's the symbiotic link between puritans and pornographers (similar to that between prohibitionists and bootleggers) that makes the game go round. Janet Jackson's right tit, exposed on national TV at the Super Bowl, was the talk of the nation, more in bemusement - after all, the woman had products to promote - but the usual voices of shock and dismay were raised, thus raising the promotional value. Why do Republicans not get this? Their sulfurous views about sex, their obsession over it make the prize more attractive, and so, in the United States, girls under 15 are at least five times more likely to get pregnant than girls the same age in Old Europe where sex is viewed as an ordinary part of life and nothing to huff and puff about. A little secularism might help.
That's a quote from p. 111-112 of Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts From the Heart of America by Garrison Keillor. I read it during our get-away trip to the UP. Get yourself a copy or ask to borrow mine.
The fact that it's so refreshing to hear Michelle Malkin object vigorously to Bush's cronyism and Al Franken criticize NARAL's misleading attack ad on John Roberts, illustrates how rare balanced political commentary is. I think we all want it fair and balanced, but we hardly ever get it.
Have a listen to episode 296 of This American Life. It's titled "After the Flood" and includes first-hand accounts of what happened in New Orleans after Katrina. Denise Moore, who was trapped in the New Orleans Convention Center, tells of acts of "surprising humanity" that she witnessed by "armed thugs, taking charge and doing good." Paramedics from San Francisco, who were visiting New Orleans for a convention when Hurricane Katrina hit, "tried to escape the city in a number of ways. When they tried to leave the city on foot, they were told, at gunpoint, by police, that they must turn back."
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