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Archive for April, 2008

Newsflash: Ignorance is Not Bliss! (Abstinence and Why It Sucks)

The BBC reported in August that abstinence-only sex education programs are not working in the United States. Shockingly, studies found that avoiding education about sex does not reduce risks of teen pregnancy or slow the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. It turns out that sex is so good that even pretending it doesn’t exist does [...]

Man Killed For Residing In United States While Black

On November 25th, 2006, Sean Bell was shot the day before his wedding date — because he was going to a bachelor party with friends at the Kalua Club in Queens, New York. He was shot by three detectives; two friends in his bachelor party were wounded and he was killed by the fifty shots [...]

Male Answer Syndrome & Homeland Insecurity: Smells Like Bullshit

In high school, I was once asked to read this article about Male Answer Syndrome. Here’s an excerpt I just found online: It is called `Male Answer Syndrome: Why Men always have opinions, even on subjects they know nothing about’ — by Jane Campbell (from Utne Reader, Jan/Feb 1992) “In the animal kingdom, males exhibit [...]

Don't Kill For Me: The Case Against Death for Child Rapists

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider the case of Patrick Kennedy, who is being tried for raping his eight-year-old stepdaughter, in Louisiana, a state where the crime of child rape carries the death penalty. This will be the first case to reexamine the use of the death penalty for rape since 1977, when [...]

Well, Shock Me, Shock Me, Stalk Me, With Your Deviant Behavior

– okay, I did watch Empire Records approximately fourteen million times between the ages of 13 and 17, and I know that’s not the exact wording used (see clip after the jump for verbatim). But what’s shocking me is the new post from Apostropha, or more precisely, its content: new cellphone technology that teaches users [...]