The American Spectator

This is a weird gift (and, frankly, kind of a dumb idea). But whom you vote for, or if you vote at all, is always your democratic prerogative. You can use whatever reasoning you want, including bad reasoning. Welcome to America.

(November 4, 2012)

New York Times Book Review

Miss Harriet Lerner, late of the Plumbing & Drainage Institute, makes some esoteric points about her peculiar understanding of her craft in the New York Times Book Review immediately before being committed to a public institution:

To the Editor:

Add my name to the thousands of women who thank the goddess for Toni Bentley’s brilliant review of Naomi Wolf’s latest book (Sept. 16). I especially appreciate her noting Wolf’s misuse of the word vagina to refer to everything “down there.” For several decades I’ve written on the subject of female genital mislabeling, illustrating how the ubiquitous avoidance of the word vulva harms girls and women. This work has been met by a dignified fraternal and feminist silence. Indeed, many educated adults still think that this other V-word refers to a Swedish automobile or is otherwise unspeakable. In our vulva-phobic culture (thank you, Eve Ensler and Naomi Wolfe), we give our daughters no name for the whatchamacallit that is the center of erotic pleasure and (short of X-ray vision) all that’s available for visual inspection.

Harriet Lerner
Lawrence, Kan.

The writer, for three decades a senior staff psychologist at the Menninger Clinic, is the author of “Women in Therapy” and “The Dance of Anger.”

(October 5, 2012)

NBCMontana.com

And thus begins another affecting tale of compassion and human kindness from a young man destined to someday become a seething sexual maniac:

The CARE (Condom Access for Responsible Encounters) group, associated with the on-campus Curry Health Center, sent out the “Protection Pumpkin”; a costumed staff member to offer condoms to students.

It’s an event the health enhancement group offers for several holidays (the Latex Leprechaun and the Condom Cupid are other characters) to encourage safe sex and offer information to students.