CNN.com: Study links sexual content on TV to teen pregnancyHm. Sexual content comes on the screen and hormone levels surge to a paralyzing level, thus incapacitating teens from changing the channel or turning the thing off?! I would have never thought of that ( Read more... )

1. Date Night Buffalo chili, courtesy of Mr. ericbodwell
2. Everything in the world that man does for us to make this thing we've got work
3. BBC News: Legal case against God dismissed
4. Rachel Maddow
5. David Alan Grier's Chocolate News
6. Writing in the latest little notebook (it's got a Breakfast Club theme!)
7. Learning more about Jane Jacobs8. Vacation ( Read more... )

RI schools required to teach about dating violence

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Toronto Star: Canada votes on October 14; Governor-General Michaelle Jean agrees to dissolve 39th parliament
BBC News: Canadian PM calls snap election
CNN.com: Canadian PM employs loophole in potential power grab

If any of my friends up in the Great North have some insight, it would be much appreciated.

Today is Russia Day. It was on this day in 1990 that the Russian parliament declared sovereignty from the Soviet Union.

1. The Desert Sessions Vols. 9 & 10 (with Josh Homme, PJ Harvey, etc.) for $3.99 in the Hastings Used bin
2. Finding new ways to increase workplace productivity
3. My "Nibbles" Lunch Review about Monte Vista Fire Station's steak salad in the 13 June 08 issue of the VENUE
4. Completing my first book review for the Sunday Journal Books Page ( Read more... )

Malcolm X: 5.19.25-2.21.65


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Today is the birthday of poet Billy Collins, born in New York in 1941. Collins is both a critically acclaimed and popular poet, a unique combination in the world of modern poetry. Collins began writing poems at age 12. He devoured all the poetry he read, especially the contemporary poems in Poetry magazine ( Read more... )

... you had to wonder what the international financial community makes of a country whose president could show up to talk economics in the middle of a liquidity crisis and kind of flop around the stage as if he was emcee at the Iowa Republican Pig Roast.