My usual Google Reader kick has revealed via Digby, that Congressional Democrats are all about funding the usual joke that is abstinence-only sex ed.

I don't understand the shock that Democrats would agree to something like this, even if it is in the context of getting bigger concessions out of the Bush administration (which they'll never get), ( Read more... )

Apparently the federal government would now like to extend the money for abstinence-only to groups aiming for 20-somethings:

Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of dollars in federal money that will be available to the states under revised federal grant ( Read more... )

Since Bill Maher is off the air for a couple months, I'm stepping in.

New Rule: If you're dumb enough to misinterpret Lolita this badly in a paean to the blowjob, you shouldn't be allowed to opine about sex in either written or oral form (pun mildly intended ( Read more... )

An interesting and very long piece on the anti-contraception movement.My usual opinion on this is you can't have it both ways -- there are studies that link use of birth control to lower rates of abortion, but I know that argument doesn't hold water with the people profiled by the NYT Magazine. However, it's rare that they actually come out and say ( Read more... )

Gilliard, as usual, encapsulates why despite the lack of a DNA match, the whole thing still stinks.

I've been really drunk in various places in my life, with scantily clad women around, and shit like that didn't happen. You are probably able to say the same, too.

I swear I just heard Bill Walton compare Suns forward/center Boris Diaw to Beethoven ushering in the Romantic Era with his Symphony in E flat during the Lakers-Suns game on ESPN.

I shit you not.

In other things sports-related, there's a lot of talk about the Duke lacrosse team and the rape accusations. I'd have to agree with this Slate piece -- I ( Read more... )

Gilliard's got his two cents on this New York Times Magazine piece about single women seeking sperm donors. Some are looking outside their own races, which is fine (and I encourage heavily), but without actually considering the consequences of such actions.

"I would probably choose somebody with a darker skin color so I don't have to slather ( Read more... )

(11:39:41) xiamin: Is Tiger Trap named after the Beat Happening song ( Read more... )

L.A. County is now funding a service with my tax dollars that lets you send anonymous emails to let former lovers know you have an STD and might have transmitted them.

I keep thinking of an e-card that would say, "I've been itching to tell you, and I bet you know 'cos you're already scratching."

If all male pedophiles are ugly as fuck (and trust me, I've seen enough mugshots to know that this rule is almost always true), then all femme teachers that commit statutory rape with their male students are at a level of comeliness that demands Van Halen be playing in the background. Love this bit:

Fitzgibbons said in July that plea negotiations ( Read more... )