Because it's what's hip nowadays

Apparently, a number of recent visitors here have found my blog through Google. Though unsurprising (Google is, of course, most people's start page, as it is, to the Intarwebs), what got me chuckling was the queries they've used that got them here.

Looking at the analytics logs, the ones that tickled my vanity more than a little bit were: the real author of hb 5043, and house bill 5043 reaction paper. The bill was initially written and sponsored by Edcel Lagman, by the way. Which in no way helps you, if you subscribe to the boneheaded conspiracy theory spouted by penile-headed bishops that the RH bill's existence is due to pressure exerted by the multinational companies that make and market condoms, birth control pills, and other contraceptives.

Of course, both queries turned up a link to my rant from a year ago. I'm not bothered by the thought of some high-school kid ripping my essay off and submitting it as his own (if you're searching for an HB 5043 "reaction paper", you're probably in a Catholic school, and my militant-libertarian style definitely won't pass muster, even if it weren't laced with too much profanity). What bothers me is the idea that it'll get passed off without the kid (or, *gasp!*, the teacher) even reading it—which is sort of what I had in mind when I wrote it.

It's fun imagining what would happen if a high-school kid did try to pass my essay off as his own, though, if only to try and figure out what his teacher's reaction would be. Probably die of stroke. By the way, I think of that visitor as a "he", because, in my experience, girls tend to actually try and write reaction papers assigned to them.