Delusion or Calgary Wins!

Ok, so I was watching a little of this sex tv thing on the discovery channel late last night and saw something really funny. The show was talking about the debate over sex ed in schools. One camp thinks that sex ed is very important in order to prepare kids and teens for the world they will soon enter. This camp feels that the more education, the better choices kids will make, ie) using condoms, etc. The other camp feels like sex ed is the reason that kids are having sex. This camp feels that if we teach kids about it, they will want to do it more. This camp blames all the teenage pregnancies and other world ills on sex ed in schools. This camp is also coincidentally primarily from the bible belt (although the show did not say this). The funniest moment of the show had to be this girl "expert" they talked to. It was PAINFULLY obvious that she was a "goody-goody" type of person. Anyway, her opinion on the subject was sooooo deluded that it made me laugh out loud. She felt that today's young people were rejecting the sexual lifestyle in droves from all the overexposure and sex ed teaching. Her reasoning's were hilarious. She said that the, and I am not making this up, "return of ballroom dancing proves it." The return of ballroom dancing????? THAT proves that young people are rejecting sex????? What the fuck??? Her other point was that young people were returning to the rules of etiquette more and more... Excuse me? Is this person living on the same planet???? Where the hell are young people returning to the rules of etiquette????? If by return she means escape from, then I'd agree.... How this person got to be an "expert" on ANYTHING is beyond me... She was living in her own little fantasy world... she was kinda cute though.... But the fact of it all is that she was wayyyyy off base. Young people today are not rejecting sex, returning to etiquette, or ballroom dancing in droves. If anything, they are becoming more and more unaware of the dangers of sex while doing it more and more... There was a study done a while ago and the results were staggering. The majority of young people today think such odd things like there is a cure for aids, you can't get std's if you are on the pill, and other assorted idiocies... It's like all the work from sex ed has fallen on deaf ears... Or maybe they don't get it as much anymore... When I was in school, we had it every year from grade 6 on. The facts were drilled into out heads over and over again... I don't want to be all "angry old man" here, but there is something wrong with the youth of today when they don't understand simple facts well enough... Not that the majority of my age group is any better... Come on people, there is more to life than the fucking TV and drinking... you have to learn about stuff or you are just an empty shell going through the motions... ARGH, it's frustrating to see so many people content to live in ignorance...
On a happier note, the Calgary Flames knocked off the Detroit Red Wings in 6 games last night! I watched the whole thing and it ruled! Great goaltending, end to end hockey, etc. There was a little too much hooking and interference for my tastes, but I come from the group that grew up watching Gretsky skate circles around people all day. Any hooking is too much compared to the glory days of the 80's, where the game was nuts fast. There I go again, talking all "old man like." I don't mean too.... but I think it's just a factor of growing up... the idealization of one's own past as being the peak... I'm sure if this was the 80's and I was my current age, I'd be complaining about how the 70's were better or something...
I've been watching a lot more hockey this playoffs then usual. It could be that there are more Canadian teams this year, or maybe that I've had an itch to get back into the game for the past couple of years. While not a star player or anything, I was a decent little "character guy" in my day. I was the guy who would always try, even when down 7 goals, the guy who would rush into the corners, the guy who would pass the puck to make the plays, etc. I was never hardcore enough to want to make a professional career out of it... I never had the drive... Sometimes I wish I had, because I loved playing the game... I loved the feeling on the ice and the rush it gave you... I had to quit because of the rising cost involved in playing, but I wish that I had stuck with it longer... Maybe this winter I'l try to find a league to join... I hope there are some with full pads and whatnot... I'd like to play it full bore again... I don't know if they have those kinds of leagues for my age group....
I haven't done anything with anyone for 6 days now... No one's called me... Poor me.... :(