As always, Madeleine is here to bring pregnancy conversation to the table:
As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies-more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year.

Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for ( Read more... )

S.F. homeless get free phone numbersCecilia M. Vega, Chronicle Staff Writer ( Read more... )

I grew up in Rhode Island thinking that the Darwin fish was the original, and that people perverted it to make it a Jesus fish. Ahh, innocence. I was surrounded by a LOT of Darwin fish. What can I say ( Read more... )

Billboard: In the book, you mention that you felt rock biographies were “inaccurate and full of s-.” How did you go about setting the tone to avoid this?Slash: I’ve been approached about doing a book for probably all the wrong reasons so many times, I couldn’t validate it in my own mind. For one, it seemed very self-indulgent, very self-centered ( Read more... )

Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
The Guardian, Thursday September 27, 2007

Painting a swastika on a public building is a hate crime. But what happens when the building itself is the swastika? While appearing innocuous from the ground, the striking shape of a construction in San Diego, now on view to internet users accessing Google Earth, is ( Read more... )

Poll
The list is Popular Mechanic's 25 Skills Every Man Should Know. What are some other essential skills for citizens of the world (men and women)? Prepare a meal for 2? Drive a manual transmission? Unclog a toilet?

Is there a cat fate worse than being stolen by Satanists for rituals?

Yes.

Anitoch, CA resident Julie Atkinson has uncovered tales of over 300 missing cats in her town. The shelter is writing them off to coyote kills, but no bodies or evidence have turned up. Atkinson has created a database of the missing cats and is doing undercover work on ( Read more... )

I was really pissed off when Congress stopped working on universal healthcare and got more involved in healthcare for Terri. (Go read that post. It's a Daily Show transcript with Senior Ethicist Stephen Colbert.)

Now, thanks to xterminal, I've been obsessively reading about Richard Cohen's insane beliefs and actions as a "repaired" gay (he, too, was on ( Read more... )

Here's a fun quote to take out of context:

Scientists have discovered the first gene which appears to increase the odds of being left-handed. The Oxford University-led team believe carrying the gene may also slightly raise the risk of developing psychotic mental illness such as schizophrenia.

We're on Episode Six of the Urinal Diaries, kids! Can any of your other lj friends brag that they have nine entries under their urinals tag?

I thought not.

Inspired by an entry about keeping the yellow mellow over in brdgt's journal, I did some research on modern toilet innovations.

Dual flush toiletsDual-flush toilets were invented in 1980's ( Read more... )