On a totally different subject, one of the stupid ideas of the century is the Bush administration's notion of blocking birth control efforts especially in regard to foreign aid educational efforts to third world countries. When a vicious cycle between high birth rates and extreme poverty is in play driving the planet to an unsupportable number of people in regions which are already depleted and poverty-stricken in terms of basic resources, the notion of denying education and means of birth control because of some fancied metaphysical drivel is (IMHO) downright anti-social.

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