A Rant on Public Education, Long Time Coming
To understand why the public school system is in any way deficient, you must first understand this: Schools are, from the ground up, primarily controlled by politicians.
...read moreDada Calls Bullshit
Bullshit it is. What’s really amazing about this is the speed at which ‘Newsweek Lied, People Died’ became a mantra for the Right; within 24 hours, every winger with a blog was parroting this shit ad infinitum and ad nauseam. The right-wing echo chamber is truly a well-oiled propaganda machine. Fucking worthless hypocrites all of [...]
...read moreOoh, Ooh, Eee: Orgasm Science
An article by the Boston Globe covers the scientific recognition of and the evolutionary arguments surrounding the female orgasm. A new book by Elisabeth A. Lloyd, The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution, “summarizes dozens of evolutionary accounts of the female orgasm – and knocks them all down. Like [paleontologist [...]
...read moreBurgers, babies and Paris Hilton
First, Carl’s Jr turns out an ad featuring an animated baby in utero (and I say “baby” because this thing looks more like a three-month-old than a fetus or even a newborn) mouthing off to mama because she’s eating a spicy burger. Now, it’s bikini-clad Paris Hilton washing a Bentley and eating a burger. “We [...]
...read moreReforming the Cal youth penal system
Gov. Schwarzenegger has his share of flaws, but his administration’s plan to reform the juvenile prison system sounds like a step in the right direction. It would focus on vocational training, education and counselling instead of punitive measures — and while critics say it doesn’t go far enough (I agree), it’s a step ahead of [...]
...read moreFor sex ed that works
Look to Dr. Carrera. Director of the National Adolescent Sexuality Training Center at the Children’s Aid Society, Carrera has been working with low-income young people, offering them comprehensive sexual health education starting at age 11 and going through high school graduation. The result: We participated in a three-year independent evaluation of our program. Nine hundred [...]
...read moreMonday Must-Read
Lynn writes on her meeting with a “Lost Boy” from Sudan: It was only after he was living in the US that Dane learned that most of his family did escape, and are now refugees in Uganda and Kenya. His father is dead. There are more “Lost Boys” than girls for a reason: small boys [...]
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