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Give whatever name to it you want: “abstinence vows” or “viginity pledges” or “virginity contracts”, it just doesn’t matter. And you goddamned well know that the latest label, “purity rings”, makes no difference either.
Teen abstinence programs don’t work.
When it comes to pledges of abstinence “no pledge” is every bit as effective as “any pledge” or [...]

Like being penalized–for not “being married”–by the very systems and institutions of the very society that denies them the right to marry, no less!  That’s double-sided prejudice, people.
Associated Press, Tennessee: Divorced mother appeals night ban on partner:
ACLU spokesman Paul Cates said the clause primarily affects lesbians and gays with children because same-sex civil unions are [...]

Michelle Obama in an article in the TimesOnline, My No. 1 job as First Lady is to be First Mom:
A few weeks ago at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, I shared with the nation some of the many reasons why I believed my husband would be an extraordinary president. It was the biggest speech [...]

The forthcoming Disney-Pixar movie UP has had it’s release date bumped up from June 12, 2009 to May 29, 2009. Hey — two weeks is two weeks!
They also have a proper site for the movie now UP : The Official Website. This site is, at this point, little more than a teaser for [...]

I’ve been out of town for almost two weeks, returning home only a couple days ago.  My mother, who has been in deteriorating health since taking a fall in February, wound up in the hospital a couple weekends ago, and the initial report from the emergency room doctor was very, very bleak: catastrophic stroke with [...]

Well, everyone knows by now that the daughter of presumptive Republican VP nominee, Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, is pregnant. The Palins, Sarah and her husband Todd, made the announcement Monday morning.
Democtatic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama had this to say:
I’ve heard some of the news on this, and so let me be as clear [...]

A federal appeals court today threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS imposed as a result of the notorious “wardrobe malfunction” during the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
I wrote about this nearly two years ago, on my old blog, wherein I concluded:
My personal credo has always been “to each his own, just leave me [...]

This is just another example of the fucking government trying to raise our children for us. And too many people are all too happy when the government (in this case the schools and state police) step in and do some of “the dirty work” for them. But this sucks:
On a Monday morning last [...]

I missed this yesterday. It seems that the opponents of teaching evolution have taken up a new strategy in Texas:
Opponents of teaching evolution, in a natural selection of sorts, have gradually shed those strategies that have not survived the courts. Over the last decade, creationism has given rise to “creation science,” which became “intelligent [...]

Whew!  Home again.  I guess my hiatus is over.  Weekends and vacations are never long enough, unless they are too long, and too long is much worse.
FWIW, my family and I spent 5 days in the mountains on a very well-deserved mini-vacation.  Nothing like unplugging for a few days to recharge your batteries.  No internet, [...]