{"id":2258,"date":"2004-02-19T14:53:40","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T06:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/19\/99-percent-failsafe\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:24:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:24:23","slug":"99-percent-failsafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/19\/99-percent-failsafe\/","title":{"rendered":"99 percent failsafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11709,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.com\\\/archives\\\/000782.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050221171145\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.com:80\\\/archives\\\/000782.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 18:43:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:436}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 18:43:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:436},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11710,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/salon.com\\\/news\\\/wire\\\/2004\\\/02\\\/18\\\/laura\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20040220154222\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.salon.com:80\\\/news\\\/wire\\\/2004\\\/02\\\/18\\\/laura\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 18:43:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 18:43:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I got a good laugh when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmuffin.com\/archives\/000782.html\" title=\"geek*muffin: The Abstinence Failsafe?\">Kirsten posted this<\/a>, and I finally remembered to mention it here.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Bush recently expressed her &#8220;shock&#8221; over the gay marriage issue. <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/news\/wire\/2004\/02\/18\/laura\/index.html\" title=\"Salon: Laura Bush says gay marriage 'shocking'\">In this Salon article<\/a> she goes on to talk about sex education, mentioning that abstinence is &#8220;100 percent fail-safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This raised Kirsten&#8217;s eyebrows, apparently&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  And it suddenly occurred to me that this was just a little off&#8230;I mean &#8211; the Bushes are hardcore christians, right?<\/p>\n<p>  That abstinence bit worked REAL well for Mary and Joseph, didn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s 100% fail-safe, after all.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Perfect Tan (Bikini Atoll)&#8221;  by Machines of Loving Grace from the album <em>Concentration<\/em> (1993, 3:21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That abstinence bit worked REAL well for Mary and Joseph, didn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s 100 percent fail-safe, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[6,14],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-humor","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}