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... )

RI schools required to teach about dating violence

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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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How magnificent the war is ( Read more... )

Those four black girls blown up
in that Alabama church
remind me of five hundred
middle passage blacks,
in a net, under water
in Charleston harbor
so redcoats wouldn't find them.
Can't find what you can't see
can you?

- Michael S. Harper

... 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.

Earlier today, Wed., March 12, The U.S. House of Representatives voted to create a six-member Office of Congressional Ethics, which will have the power to initiate and conduct ethics investigations and issue reports and recommendations to the House Ethics Committee.

Information courtesy of Common Cause.

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The following entry was made today by my friend djsparkydog:

For those of you with questions...
... about the IRS economic stimulus package, that link has a few answers.

The most important one being that if you used direct deposit, you'll recieve the stimuus check that way, with no further effort on your part required.
Thanks for the information, Sir ( Read more... )

to anyone who either:
- supported the war;
- denies that we are in a recession;
OR
- does not understand how all of this business they see on the news could possibly affect their daily lives.

I don't normally waste my time with people so stupid or deluded, but I consider this a public service.
Enjoy.

Authors: U.S. economy could fall casualty to ( Read more... )