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According to the magazine The American Conservative, “Bush carried the 19 states with the highest white fertility, and 25 out of the top 26, with highly unionized Michigan being the one blue exception to the rule.” It’s been suggested by my friends at Metafilter, that some of this might be directly attributable to the growing popularity among fundamentalists of so-called “full quiver Christianity,” in which couples go out of their way to have as many children as the good Lord sees fit to bless them with. While I would maintain that the practitioners of this belief, like Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, have every right to do this, I personally don’t think it’s responsible to act like selfish fucking jackasses and by putting more of a burden on the world’s already dwindling resources. As I suspect that a good many progressives feel the same way that I do about this, and practice responsible family planning, however, it doesn’t look as though we’ll ever win another election. So, I’m suggesting that we either need to 1) stop using birth control at the Democratic orgies, or 2) start thinking of ways to lure the kids of the fundamentalists over to the side of reason (maybe invite them to the orgies)… Regardless of the politics of fertility, there might be good news on the horizon for old mother earth though. It looks like the next wave of the bird flu could wipe out a significant percentage of the human race… (Thanks to Mike at Caliblog for the Adbusters link on over-consumption.)