I'm not worried about the Bill-O'Reilly-wannabe kids who want to boycott stores that don't put "Saint" before "Valentine's Day" -- they seem rather ineffectual (c'mon, kids, you need a longer boycott list than that).
However, I'm genuinely creeped out by people who, when they think of Valentine's Day, think, "Little tiny fetuses are being murdered!!!" Yikes.
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(TBogg has some non-G-rated Valentine's Day thoughts, along similar lines.)
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By the way, here's the cover of O'Reilly's next book:
No joke. We like ourselves, don't we, Bill?
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UPDATE: Roy at Alicublog examines the quest for a liberalism-free (and nonmarital-sex-free) Valentine's Day.
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And I should have added this from Sadly, No! about the "Day of Purity," which contains this brilliant insight:
... I do think it's tragic that so many of our youngsters must work so hard to avoid sexual temptation, especially when there's a whole slew of people out there who desperately desire access to sex, but are unable to attain it for reasons of nerdiness. This is a classic example of market failure, where an open market system produces a suboptimal allocation of resources.
Don't worry -- go to the link and learn about a market-based solution to this problem.
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