The most unwelcome of cuts

News here in Leicestershire (where I'm preparing a critical thinking workshop) describes how the USA is helping out the locals with some cuts that President Obama definitely didn't have in mind during yesterday's telephone conversation with our Prime Minister.

Claiming that it's part of a programme to prevent children being born into dysfunctional families or with addictions, an American charity called Project Prevention has "bribed" a 38-year-old drug addict to have a vasectomy. Now I don't particularly object to the trans-atlantic acquisition of our football clubs, the dictation of our foreign policy or the subjugation of our youth culture with their own, but getting involved with which Britons should (or shouldn't) give birth?
That's surely something we're capable of doing all on our own!

So the pot said to the kettle : the sequel!

Local news here in Yorkshire is that Graham Taylor, the author of "the most frightening children's book ever written", claims that he's having to keep the details of a nationwide school tour secret for fear of lobbying from Evangelical Christians after Christian Voice chairman Stephen Green was quoted as saying "Shame on any head teacher who invites GP Taylor into their school with this book", adding that, "To promote gore, bloodlust and thoughts of death as being healthy topics for the minds of innocent children is bizarre."

Doesn't sound to me like the "voice for Biblical values" has bothered to ever actually read the Old Testament part of the book he's supposedly basing those values on...