Winners
This is the first time I've heard this line of reasoning in opposition to promiscuity. Let me paraphrase: "Being faithful has no benefit because your lover might not be and you might still be at risk of infection. Thus being promiscuous is just the same. Oh, and abstinence is really boring. Marriage was not made for sexual abstinence so get out there and wrap your legs around everything that moves."That's just one of the observations from King of Fool's post Sex and Disease, winner of this week's Watcher's Council in the Council member category.
As so often happens, second place was a tie this week. e-Claire has long been one of my favorite bloggers and her post "Everything feels like the ocean to a sponge" or How I Learned to Give Up On Myself and Blame the GOP shows why. New council member The Sundries Shack ties with If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Sue ‘Em, demonstrating the Watcher's wisdom for including this fine blog on the council.
I feel compelled to point out that a great injustice was done this week. My entry was ranked higher than Dr. Sanity's Intellectual Harassment, an account of the lack of diversity on our campuses from an insider perspective. Insightful and informative.
Winner of the non-Council member category is Victor Hanson with How Far We've Come, Let's not forget, in which we are reminded of the challenges that we faced going into Afghanistan in Iraq, the cries that it couldn't be done from the left, and the incredible things that have been accomplished is so short a time. Money quote:
There may well be even more terrible things to come in Iraq than what we have seen already, but there will also be far better things than were there before. And there will come a time, when all those who slandered the efforts — the Germans, the French, the American radical Left, the vicious Michael "Minutemen" Moore, the pampered and coddled Hollywood elite, the Arab League, and the U.N. will assume that Iraq is a "good thing" like Afghanistan, and that democracy there really was preferable — after they had so bravely weighed in with their requisite "ifs" and "buts" — to the mass murders of Saddam Hussein. Yes, they will say all this, but it will be for the rest of us to remember how it all came about and what those forgotten soldiers and people of Iraq went through to get it — lest we forget, lest we forget....The Intermittent Stream took second place with My Rose Colored Contacts, a reality check against the tide of depression that the media pours upon us. Nice job, and now I've discovered yet another blog to add to my RSS feed.
All entries that received votes are listed on the Watcher's site. Check 'em out.
Blog post #4234 in category
Watcher's Council
posted 10 December 04