Tell me are you goofing on Elvis

[napoleonherself]

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/classes/a201-dger/spr2004/notes/Nineteen.html

Read through as much of this as you can handle... my programming instructor is such a dork.

When you get sick of wading through the java, make sure you look at the last two lines before closing the page. See? Proof.

Life still sucks, but at least slightly less now.

[Edit]: Stolen from vfc: No, Virginia, women DON'T get to choose what happens to their own bodies. Hooray! Equal rights are BAD. Keep women barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, or DEMOCRACY ITSELF WILL FALL!!! la la.

Comments

[apm.livejournal.com]

Score one for sneaking stupid random crap into otherwise not-necessarily-stupid laws!

Personally, I think it's a good idea to let women choose for themselves whether they want a clitoris, rather than having their mothers choose for them. Religious custom or not, that's cruel. But then, I have a tendency to think the right to keep all of your body parts basically intact is a pretty basic one.

But the piercing thing is just ignorant. Really, the law should simply be, "No one can mess with your genitals without your consent. And consent doesn't count until you're old enough to know what's going on." Really now, who can argue with that?

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

See, the problem with your version is that it actually makes sense. And we can't have that!

Or something.

[chess]

To be fair, it looks from the article like the poor boys in the Senate hadn't even considered that people would want piercings of their own free will, and were rather embarrassed about the whole thing after they found out that they might; so it was more a problem of senators being out of touch than deliberately doing things which were repressive.