What’s up with that Maine middle school that wants to hand out contraceptives to girls as young as 11? School officials voted last night to OK a plan to distribute contraceptives to children as young as 11 in Portland, Maine. The Associated Press says the decision follows at least 17 pregnancies in the last four [...]
Alzheimer’s And Education: The Bad And The Worse
It was somewhat heartening to learn that one’s likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s disease was lessened when one had more education, but it was downright depressing to learn that once one does develop the disease, the more education one has the faster one declines: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Having more years of formal education delays the memory [...]
Kid Dynamite
Eleven-year-old competetive fencer Arabella Uhry of New York City could be an opposing Olympic swashbuckler’s worst nightmare. I wish that I’d have thought of using swordplay as a way to getting on the U.S. team. Good for her.
Boondoggle Chronicles: Public Housing For The Affluent
One of the things that really gets me mad is when I learn of a government program that knows it is being wasteful of the taxpayers’ hard-earned money and does nothing about it. As reported by The Washington Post, the latest instance of wasteful spending is to be found in relatively affluent Fairfax County Virginia: [...]
Exploitation?
When it comes to being fashionable, it is said that one can’t be “too tall, too thin, too rich, or too young.” Until now:A 12-year-old has caused a media frenzy after she was chosen to front one of the world’s largest fashion shows. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed Maddison Gabriel was picked as the official ambassador of Gold [...]
Wonkitorial Comment: Six Years After 9-11
With the United States now embroiled in the quagmire of the Iraq War, let’s not forget that the real mastermind behind the crimes of September 11, 2001 remains at large and is still unpunished. Lest we forget, here’s a whole set of articles devoted to tracking the movements of the porcine creature demon who’s name [...]
World’s Dumbest College Students?
Not everyone who goes to college is smart: (emphasis ours) A pair of freshmen at Northeastern University learned a tough lesson before classes even started this semester, when one of them allegedly leaned out the window of his dormitory and yelled something regrettable in earshot of plainclothes police officers. “If you’re looking for weed, my [...]
Alive Day
According to NBC news, if one survives being “blown-up” in Iraq, that day forever becomes one’s “Alive Day.” This Sunday evening, HBO is set to broadcast a documentary called Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq hosted by James Gandolfini. (Yes, that James Gandolfini) Read more about it here and there. I think that some of [...]
The Beaverton Bare Gets Busted!
Apparently, this guy didn’t know when to quit: PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A group of campers tied a peeping Tom suspect to a tree, keeping him bound until police arrived. Richard H. Berkey, 63, was charged with private indecency, a misdemeanor, by sheriff’s deputies who were called to the Big Fan Campground near Bagby Hot [...]
DisJustice The Modern Way
The tedious soap opera latest legal difficulties of useless lay-about “actress” Lindsay Lohan is about the best evidence that supports the idea that in today’s America, there is one standard of justice and “due process” for the Rich, Famous, Or Simply Beautiful and a very different one for the Rest of Us:BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) [...]