Go ahead, annex us. Add like 30 million guaranteed instant dems to the political pie.

I actually live in Alberta where all the oil is. It is seriously distorting our society, I almost think that we'd be better off if we could turn the tap off for a little while. But no, as our former premier once said, god puts oil under conservative free traders for a reason.

I just want to go on the record that one of the great regrets of my life is that I never had a chance to do Ms. England, who taught 7th grade social. She's probably like 70 now, but damn she was hott back in the day. I spent a lot of time thinking about doing her, to the detriment of my knowledge about the war of 1812 (we won that one, right?). But every time the topic comes up, I get flashes of long brown hair I wanted to nuzzle and legs that went up and up that I wanted to lick. Mmmm.

Ms. England, you out there somewhere? I'm old and married now, but if you showed up on the doorstep, I don't think I could turn you away.

Oh, and also you might want to remember what happened last time around:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=o7jlFZhprU4&feature=related

It has nothing at all to do with what men like looking at. Unless they are gay fashion designers trying to make women look like street hustling boys. Why women put up with it beyond me.

The problem is, there really is a rape crisis on campuses. Forget the 17% where definitions slide from regretted to unwanted to somewhat coerced, 12% is bad enough. But every campus I know of seems to have regular reports of good old fashioned coercive violent stranger rape on a regular basis. Even with all the extra security and escort volunteers and so on.

The wave we've had recently hereabouts has involved assaults by non-students, essentially strangers who stalk campuses because, I suspect, they are good places to find unaccompanied young women late at night (or early in the morning). Educated achieving young women in fact, which may be part of the point. I don't know what level of education or warning to young men could stop this really. And it certainly has nothing to do with "hook-up culture" which is a stupid idea anyway, we were doing pretty much the same thing back in the 70s and 80s, worse actually come to think of it, it was pre HIV times after all.

On the gray areas, well, some education might be good. I think that the more coed exposure there is the less likely things are to go wrong actually; I've often thought is was more the gender-segregated fratboy types likely to believe the stupidity and selfishness promoted by that kind of culture. Once you start seeing the sex as actual human beings that you know and interact with on a daily basis, it seems to me that you would be less likely to blithely use them and toss them away.

In my stupid stupid youth I was involved in a couple of grayish drunken situations. I have a lot of regrets, but I also learnt alot from the the mess, as did, I am sure, the women involved. And there was no question of the law getting involved, but there certainly was some fairly stiff social retaliation and ongoing consequences. It is how young people learn, after all, by making ghastly stupid mistakes.