What summer is or was.
"Schools out for the summer..." It still has not occurred to me that the Spring semester is finally over- despite the extra sleep and the home cooked meals...Yeah, you know what I mean... I'm in the process of deciding which summer internship I want to commit myself too. Ideally, I would love another political internship, especially in regards to the current political mood casted upon our great state of Minnesota. But I think it would be beneficial for me to improve my writing and reporting skills for next year. Oh well, it's on the agenda...
Another perk about being at home is all the free newspapers I receive...err, steal from my father before he has a chance to take them to work with him. He recently brought a particular article to my attention. In five (it could be more by now) states there have been cases of pharmacists denying customers prescriptions for drugs that they do not agree with on a "moral level." (Legally it states that they cannot do this.) And of course, with the word "moral" you can imagine that forms of contraception are what is stirring all the trouble. People say, it interferes with their religion and that they cannot go to bed at night content with themselves knowing they are going against their morals...blah, blah, blah...I am tempted to say "Try being unemployed while your kids starve, then see how well you sleep." I mean in high school I was a competitive distance runner, and lost my cycle and was in danger of futuristically never being able to have children, so medically it was my best bet to be prescribed forms of BC- not to mention so I wouldn't be at risk for osteoporosis and other severe bone diseases. To have some pharmacist deny me access to those medications flabbergasts me...
It gets me going just thinking about related issues concerning abortion and contraceptives. Morally, to some it seems wrong, but ethically the U.S. is better off- it just makes more sense. If we had solid regulations on abortion and contraceptives can you imagine how many unplanned "oopsies" we would have, how much welfare would be shot to hell, and how our unstable economy would have to adjust itself to accommodate people's horniness and natural urges? I do not want to be overly Freudian, but come on people, "People like to fuck!"
The U.S. has pulled out billions and billions of dollars from the UN in programs supporting abstinence, sexual education and contraceptives in third world countries. Proposals are shot down continually because a minimal fraction of the programs support abortion. (China being the main one.) Okay, so a few conservatives can feel sound with their old fashion morals, AIDS can spread globally (Yes, including to the U.S.), population can double, scarce resources that have already peaked years ago can become non-existent, and our environment can take a pleading nose dive. I understand having strong morals and convictions; I really do not believe that our founding fathers intended for a complete elimination of church/religion in politics, but you cannot base everything so heavily on their rules and regulations from years ago. Look at the date when the constitution was written- there is no way that what was intended for then can be completely functionable for our society today. The constitution was written before the Civil Rights movement, before the Melting Pot, etc... I need to stop...
Anyways, summer is here and despite the rain, I am very excited for what's to come. I just mowed the lawn and clipped the bushes today and it felt great. Every summer I always wait for it to feel like summer, for instance an afternoon at the beach or later that afternoon at Walgreens buying aloe for my second degree burns, or hearing the Ice cream Man's truck roll into the neighborhood, etc. I never really feel like it' summer, but I can feel when summer is over which implies that I somewhat felt what summer was to me...
Another perk about being at home is all the free newspapers I receive...err, steal from my father before he has a chance to take them to work with him. He recently brought a particular article to my attention. In five (it could be more by now) states there have been cases of pharmacists denying customers prescriptions for drugs that they do not agree with on a "moral level." (Legally it states that they cannot do this.) And of course, with the word "moral" you can imagine that forms of contraception are what is stirring all the trouble. People say, it interferes with their religion and that they cannot go to bed at night content with themselves knowing they are going against their morals...blah, blah, blah...I am tempted to say "Try being unemployed while your kids starve, then see how well you sleep." I mean in high school I was a competitive distance runner, and lost my cycle and was in danger of futuristically never being able to have children, so medically it was my best bet to be prescribed forms of BC- not to mention so I wouldn't be at risk for osteoporosis and other severe bone diseases. To have some pharmacist deny me access to those medications flabbergasts me...
It gets me going just thinking about related issues concerning abortion and contraceptives. Morally, to some it seems wrong, but ethically the U.S. is better off- it just makes more sense. If we had solid regulations on abortion and contraceptives can you imagine how many unplanned "oopsies" we would have, how much welfare would be shot to hell, and how our unstable economy would have to adjust itself to accommodate people's horniness and natural urges? I do not want to be overly Freudian, but come on people, "People like to fuck!"
The U.S. has pulled out billions and billions of dollars from the UN in programs supporting abstinence, sexual education and contraceptives in third world countries. Proposals are shot down continually because a minimal fraction of the programs support abortion. (China being the main one.) Okay, so a few conservatives can feel sound with their old fashion morals, AIDS can spread globally (Yes, including to the U.S.), population can double, scarce resources that have already peaked years ago can become non-existent, and our environment can take a pleading nose dive. I understand having strong morals and convictions; I really do not believe that our founding fathers intended for a complete elimination of church/religion in politics, but you cannot base everything so heavily on their rules and regulations from years ago. Look at the date when the constitution was written- there is no way that what was intended for then can be completely functionable for our society today. The constitution was written before the Civil Rights movement, before the Melting Pot, etc... I need to stop...
Anyways, summer is here and despite the rain, I am very excited for what's to come. I just mowed the lawn and clipped the bushes today and it felt great. Every summer I always wait for it to feel like summer, for instance an afternoon at the beach or later that afternoon at Walgreens buying aloe for my second degree burns, or hearing the Ice cream Man's truck roll into the neighborhood, etc. I never really feel like it' summer, but I can feel when summer is over which implies that I somewhat felt what summer was to me...
posted by Angela Nicole Gray at 7:44 PM
1 Comments:
But Angela, when the ice cream truck comes dinging around the corner, we all know it's a convict driving it and as such kids should stay away from the ice cream man because he may give them a real "rocket pop" in the back of his truck.
haha
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