$170 million in Federal monies are allocated in 2005 abstinence-only sex education programs. Abstinence is a respectable and safe choice, but it is not an approach to sex any more than sitting pool-side is an approach to swimming.
Exmaples of errors in such programs are:
- A 43-day old fetus is a thinking person
- HIV can be spread by sweat and tears [I love this one]
- Condoms fail to prevent the spread of HIV as often as 31% of the time in heterosexual intercourse
- 5 to 10% of women who have an abortion become sterile
These programs are designed to make sex a appear a mysterious and dangerous activity.
Read the complete report.
As evidenced by what they search for, it can be safely deduced that AOL users are still the best.
Top AOL Search Terms for 2004:
1 horoscopes
2 lyrics
3 hairstyles
4 foreclosures
5 salaries
6 cheats
7 codes
8 jobs
9 tattoos
10 IRS
In case you too are an AOL user, it’s www.irs.gov.
When despair for the world grows in me
And I wake in the night at the least sound
In fear of what my life and my children’s life may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
Rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
Who do not tax their lives with forethought
Of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
Waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
-Wendell Berry
They’re smart, flexible and ancient. Article.
Keeping Octopi
SA Thread
Heating sealed fluid containers (like soup cans or, say, lava lamps) on the stove is a bad idea, as this guy shows.
Onceuponatime, a newspaper cost $.02. Coffee: $.05. But now, those little coins weigh more than they’re worth.
Put them all in the change dish; round up and down.
Groceries: $44.96. That’s $45.
Gas: $24.82. That’s $25.
Milk: $1.14. Tough one. Why not $1.25?
Breakfast sandwich: $4.08. Down is okay, too. $4.
And so on.
But nobody does this. And you’d be amazed how often vendors display emotion over $.02.
I suppose when ants get stepped on, they
have no idea what hit them. But I’ll bet
that hasn’t stopped them from coming up
with fancy names for it, like “spontaneous
compression” or “vertical planar syndrome.”
-LeMel Hebert-Williams
source: http://www.ruminate.com
Citroen grooves.
Song: Les Rythmes Digitales – Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat)
Update: Where there’s Internet, there’s satire.
When life has got me down and I’m ready
to give up, I try to remind myself:
“I’m the one in control here.
I have the gun and the hostages.
So just back off, man, okay?”
-Dave Brennan
source: http://www.ruminate.com
I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend your right to encrypt it…
Software sucks. Open Source sucks less.
Repeat after me, we are all individuals.
source: Slashdot.org