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   Wednesday, July 26, 2006

   CONSEQUENCES AND TRUTH

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn kicked up the usual fuss in saying that having condoms available in high schools will lead teenagers to greater risk:

"You know, the moral rationalization is if you make a mistake there’s no consequences. I’ve seen the consequences. Condoms and teenagers work about 50% of the time, if you count all the studies up."

He's right -- ask a teenager to mow the lawn and there's only a 50% chance he'll do it. As for the point he was trying to make, condoms of course work 97% of the time and you'll get more real insight on teenagers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer:

Cordelia: So does looking at guns make you wanna have sex?
Xander: I'm 17. Looking at linoleum makes me wanna have sex.