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... )

Valerie Plame for head of the CIA!
-- eh_notsomuch was playing "Fantasy Democratic Cabinet" on her commute home the other day. Plame leads her draft picks, which include John Edwards for Attorney General and Joe Biden for Secretary of State.Congratulations, Dina Lohan. Now you just need to start pumping Agrippina full of catnip and making him work 12 hour ( Read more... )

Please comment with something you think I should do or try to do in 2008. Big or small, silly or earth-changing.

Sen. Pat Leahy, D-VT. to Sen. Jon Kyl, R-ARIZ:

Senator Kyl, he's already rejected it. The president's already -- I mean, the president went on national television... and gave his word to the American people that he would accept only a closed-door meeting with no transcript, not under oath, and limited number of people. He has said that is the only ( Read more... )

All the political news that is fit to piss you off, brought to you by eh_notsomuch:

From the New York Times:
The senior Pentagon official in charge of military detainees suspected of terrorism said in an interview this week that he was dismayed that lawyers at many of the nation’s top firms were representing prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and that the ( Read more... )

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Just plain COOL:
A brewery in Greenland is producing beer using water melted from the ice cap of the vast Arctic island. The brewers claim that the water is at least 2,000 years old and free of minerals and pollutants.

Grammar
eh-notsomuch has coined a new word:
Trisuckta: Noun. Used to describe something that has three different qualities that ( Read more... )