What does needing "plans to train new candidates" to not say STUPID stuff say about the intellectual capacity (in other words COMMON SENSE!) of those candidates.

~~~~good grief~~~~

Life goes on. Maybe!!!

Yes, because abstinence only programs work SO well. Good lord. Some people really don't get it, do they?

I've spent years of my life trying to teach abstinence, birth control and anything else I thought might keep a teenager from getting pregnant. IT DOESN'T WORK!

Take out Ralph Wiggum and substitute the GOP: "Us fail smart talk? That's unpossible!"

Abstinence education worked so well the last time it was emphasized -- right?

How about parents be parents? What a concept! And that not only goes for this topic, it goes for everything. A lot of money is just dumped into crap that maybe families should be helping each other ecucate each other on. Not have someone else hold their hand and tell them what to do, eat, etc...

Regarding the "journalism" of the Higgs story

• Where is the Beef? Don't you find it stunning, that for an article on the Higgs, out of all those words there just is one short sentence that bothers to give the reader any idea of what the Higgs field is? Look- I get the problem that edutainment is trying to address and I salute this efforts of making science more approachable. I don't mind injection of drama to hold people's attention, but this is incredibly light weight about the science question being answered. The reader is told that something called the "Standard Model" would be called into question if the Higgs were not found, but we have no idea what the SM is, why that sort of consequence matters, or what the Higgs has such significance for the SM anyway.
• There is good attention paid to the probabilistic nature of the proof. Here the author missed an opportunity to teach some basic science- to confront a popular misconception that statistics can be made to prove anything a person wants to prove. It's baloney, because statistics is how the existence of the Higgs was proved.

For injecting drama, a nice effort. But in pedagogical terms, it was awful. Very disappointing article.

Five hundred million dollar for abstinece only is a stunning waste of taxpayer money.