Coinciding with today's Remembrance ceremonies, let's all wish a happy 89th birthday to Gen. Mikhail Kalashnikov (Ret'd). Irony? Comedy? Logic? Confusion? (Q: Mikhail Who? A: Look it up!) You decide!
In today's random news bits, the Edmonton Journal has an article on the front page regarding the city's recent syphilis outbreak in which the author derides the provincial health authority, saying that it's "all well and good" to say that citizens are responsible for their sexual health, but the the health authority should be more involved. Which leads to the question, if one is going to holistically champion Pierre Trudeau's assertion that the nation has no place in the bedrooms of the people, then wouldn't one have to agree that it is, for the most part, people having sex who are responsible for their own sexual health? Let's face it; less than three years ago in Toronto, a school board survey (high school level) revealed that a whopping 60% of Toronto-area teens believed that AIDS is a low-risk, curable disease, which in turn revealed that it the possibility it doesn't matter how much education is given in terms of high-risk sex and knowledge of communicable diseases. Perhaps everyone's just listening to Trudeau and ignoring The Man's advice in regards to their sex lives. Of course, than you run into the paradox of the fact that serious and easily communicable STDs like syphilis are a public health issue, in spite of the fact that they're sexually transmitted, and Trudeau's mantra breaks down quicker than a trick-or-treaters tooth enamel.
But, personally, the fact that Kalashnikov's birthday coincides with Armistice Day is far more interesting.
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