Great post, Eugene. When you touted the liberation of all those poor under-represented corporations in the wake of Citizens United, I was ready to give up on you for good. Then you go and provide us with a non-Civil War era example of a woman getting pregnant without intercourse, and all is forgiven.
The truly improbable life is the one in which nothing improbable happens. Just like I tell kids, sure not having a vagina is 99.9999% proof against getting pregnant but that only means if you have oral sex and get knifed in the abdomen afterward a million times it is almost certain that one of those times you will get pregnant.
Peter Bepler says:
Reminder of the classic joke: “Why does it take a million sperm to fertilize one egg?” “Because they won’t stop and ask for directions.”
February 4, 2010, 5:53 pmJeff Dege says:
The phrase “Sperm Can Swim Far in the Female Body” reminded me of the classic: Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
February 4, 2010, 5:55 pmfnook says:
Great post, Eugene. When you touted the liberation of all those poor under-represented corporations in the wake of Citizens United, I was ready to give up on you for good. Then you go and provide us with a non-Civil War era example of a woman getting pregnant without intercourse, and all is forgiven.
February 4, 2010, 10:53 pmrequired says:
The truly improbable life is the one in which nothing improbable happens. Just like I tell kids, sure not having a vagina is 99.9999% proof against getting pregnant but that only means if you have oral sex and get knifed in the abdomen afterward a million times it is almost certain that one of those times you will get pregnant.
February 4, 2010, 11:12 pmTGGP says:
I’m pretty sure the Mythbusters showed the Civil War story to be bunk. That girl got pregnant the normal way.
February 6, 2010, 12:46 amXanthippas says:
That’s the craziest damn story I’ve read so far this week.
February 7, 2010, 12:20 pmJosef says:
Have you seen this new Preseration Hall project that Tom Waits is getting down with. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003019LVK/thevolocons0d-20/ Should be pretty cool
February 8, 2010, 7:05 am