There you go, straight from the horse's mouth: What exactly is up with that whole lipstick/pig thing. Perhaps next time, he'll use the ol' "silk purse from a sow's ear" analogy, and avoid the lipstick debacle altogether (although if he took that route, the Palin/McCain camp would probably say he was threatening to cut off [...]

Abstinence-only sex education is utter horseshit. The concept, in a nutshell: Prevent pregnancy by telling kids not to have sex until marriage, but don't teach them how to use contraception, because knowing how a condom works will make them want to have sex.
This is like teaching driver's ed by telling people not to have accidents, [...]