It's been quiet here lately, but I don't want to close this journal (yet), so I'll start linking you to interesting stuff I found while wandering around this series of interconnected tubes. Take it or leave it.

Today, I bring you a letter to the American Congress, urging the Democrats to cut funding for abstinence only education programs. The letter is signed by ten leading researchers from the field of adolescent sexual and reproductive health.

Scientists Tell Pelosi: No more Ab-only Funding

If you're in Europe, you might think this doesn't concern you, since people over here generally just shake their heads at the idea of not having sex before marriage. But with conservative governments on the rise in more and more European countries, I fear that this nonsense could become a problem for us sooner rather than later.

If I had children, I'd want their education and their health care to be based on scientific facts, not fundamentalist Christian moral values.