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No such thing as bad publicity
Lawyers, Guns and Money — I'd like to think that if you -- like Derek the Abstinence Clown -- were made of undiluted awesome, you'd rejoice in the opportunity to sow your seed prodigiously, especially if your message consists of the uplifting argument that premarital sex is like being dismembered by machete blades. Apparently not. I don't get it. I mean, Ann Althouse just explained the other day that because a lot of high school kids are still virgins, we really can't be certain -- aside from the reassurances of science -- that abstinence ...

Midday open thread
Daily Kos — ... Holy crap, this isn't a joke? Derek the Abstinence Clown, funded by our tax dollars to scare children into not having sex (or something), has gotten YouTube to pull its video of his antics on a "copyright" claim. So whoever has that video, please send it to me so I can get it up on Daily Kos TV, where we don't cower from people trying to suppress shit like this. ...

Midday open thread
Daily Kos — ... So here's video of Derek the Abstinence Clown, who works for an organization that got an $800,000 federal grant to put on this crap. Your tax dollars at work. ...

Derek the Abstinence Clown pulls YouTube promo video
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... the Elizabeth New Life Center landed an $800K grant to spread the word about the evils of sex. Federal funds enabled Dye to take his “Bachelor of Fun Arts” from Barnum Bailey Clown College, and his $50 abstinence-educator certificate and travel the Buckeye state making an *ss out of himself, juggling and saying things like “Having sex before you are married is just like juggling machetes!” Apparently Dye wasn’t interested in all the attention. Joe@AmplifyYourVoice: One would think that having such invaluable ...