This is it, not the Rapture, but the rupture of my Diary Maidenhead. It's not that I haven't entertained thoughts of diarization before, it's more, as someone suggested, that others do it so much better!
I've found my métier in commenting, where I feel that I can occasionally add something to the conversation. As it happens, the thing which I most usually add is snark. I figure there's a lot of serious work and thought that goes into most of the diaries here, so I try, in my small way, to balance that out.
I agreed to produce a Monday fill-in just to break the thin, but resilient, film of tissue between me and The World of dKos Diarists. But first, the Disclaimer: anyone who sees any similarity whatever to the magnificent C&J product which is the sole property of Bill in Portland Maine, needs a complete neuro workup, stat!
Virgin Diary right over this shark fold...
whoosh, gonggg, etc. ...
Now, some have said:
Virginity is something supernaturally great, wonderful, and glorious; and, to speak plainly and in accordance with the Holy Scriptures, this best and noblest manner of life alone is the root of immortality, and also its flower and first-fruits; and for this reason the Lord promises that those shall enter into the kingdom of heaven who have made themselves eunuchs, in that passage of the Gospels in which He lays down the various reasons for which men have made themselves eunuchs. Chastity with men is a very rare thing, and difficult of attainment, and in proportion to its supreme excellence and magnificence is the greatness of its dangers.
Me? I'm not so sure.
My first experience of losing my virginity was long, long ago. I was eighteen, and ready. She was eighteen, ready, somewhat experienced, and game. It was fine! No fireworks, mind you, but neither was it a trauma. In fact, we're still in touch, via occasional emails, lo these umpty years later.
How was it for you...?
By The Numbers:
Days until competent hands re-assume the C&J helm - 1
Days 'til my kids go back to school - 7
Days left in Summer - 33
Days left to the Bush "presidency" - 882
Percent of adolescents in a large, federally funded study who said they made a virginity pledge and then denied doing so a year later, often after they had become sexually active - 53
Percentage of US high school students who report having had sexual intercourse - 47
Percentage of US high school students found to have had sexual intercourse in a 2003 study - 62
US teen pregnancy rate for girls 15-19 - 84 per 1,000
German teen pregnancy rate for girls 15-19 - 16 per 1,000
Number of educational organizations that taught adolescents that a 43-day-old fetus is a "thinking person" and that the HIV virus can be spread by sweat or tears - 69
Mr. Wroe presents himself to the Christian Israelites as their prophet. Several accurate premonitions cement his authority, so when he informs his congregation that "the Lord has instructed me to take your number seven virgins for comfort and succour," they send their daughters without question.
-Mr. Wroe's Virgins
cheers to Ned!
jeers to Joe!
cheers to the actual Democrats who have come out in support of Ned
jeers and trouble at the polls for "Democrats" who have lost sight of what we Democrats hold dear
jeers to Bucking Fush and his handlers
"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge" Voltaire
Do you have a loss-of-innocence story to share? What are you cheering and jeering about this morning, hmmmmm...???