I read this article today in the Deseret Morning News, and I thought you'd find it interesting: Abstinence education not working, study finds WASHINGTON — Programs that focus exclusively on abstinence have not been shown to affect teenager sexual behavior, although they are eligible for tens of millions of dollars in federal grants, according to a study released by a nonpartisan group that seeks to reduce teen pregnancies. "At present there does not exist any strong evidence that an...
Yes, this article is a spammer. But this is far too funny to leave without posting. Translation: Hola, señorita, what is your name? My name is Mike, my name is Mike. Where is the bathroom? Happy birthday. What time is it, what time is it? La la la la la I like the library. I live in the red house. I have two bicycles. Thanks a lot - and - you're welcome! How old are you? One moment, please, it's the one semester of Spanish Spanish love song. My mother is bea...
Waves of static pulsate, tides of white noise, punctuated by the fleeting beats of washed-out drums, slowly emerging from a neolithic paste of tribal dissonance, coalescing into the friendly, familiar sounds of a heavy beat. Simple piano melodies wash in with the white waves, bringing in tow the guttural guitars, fuzzed beyond recognition. Point, counterpoint, piano and guitar dance like lovers, diametrically opposed, yet ultimately complementary. The harrowing, haunting bass...
The setting sun burned blood red in the sky, shining down over Tenochtitlán as Rodrigo slowly stepped up the sides of the temple, making his way slowly to the top. Some sort of commotion was developing on the pyramid, and the rest of his small battalion was still out searching for news concerning the fighting force of Velázquez and whether or not he had truly come to punish Cortés for his insubordinance. Rodrigo heard the heavy sounds of the native speech, that foreign tongue of Nahuatl, ...
It. One little word, such possibilities. Ebay be damned. It. It. It. I feel better already. -- So the other day I'm walking down the street, and Don Quijote walks up to me, and he's got the face of Miguel de Unamuno instead of his own face, but they're quite similar so it takes me a minute to realize it, and then it changes to Gabriela Mistral's face and that's creepy as hell but oh well and then I wake up -- Maria Christopher is hot. Julie Christmas is scary. Ye...
No hay ninguna cosa, ninguna razón que me hace no querer ir a España. Había una cosa, pero ya esto se acabó. Hace mucho, me enamoré de mi mejor amiga, pero nunca le dije nada, como el estúpido que soy. Pero tengo buenas razones por las cuales no dije nada - siempre tenía novio ella, de hecho ¿qué pude decir? Mantengo - absolutamente nada. Ella tuvo tiempos buenos con él, y tiempos malos. Y estuve allá como amigo siempre, pase lo que pase. Salió ella en una misión para la iglesia, y...
Friday and that. Sitting at work, listening to the incomparable voice of Maria Christensen, thinking about the homework that's due this weekend that I have yet to start. I'm gonna play my guitar when I get home. I'm actually going to eat lunch today; I'm thinking an Arby's sub is in my future. Friday and that. I want a seven-string guitar. I want a mandolin. But I have to save my money for Spain. So . . . no new instruments. (Besides, I have eight stringed things. You'...
I don't know how many of you are familiar with the greatest of MMORPGs, Kingdom of Loathing . It's been a while since I'd played, and I'd lost all my old accounts because it had been sixty days since I'd signed in. So I created a new account, sad to have lost all my efforts on my old ones, but glad to play the game again. Because it's a new character with almost no stuff still, my meat (the money of the KoL universe) is pretty low. But as I was adventuring in the Sleazy Back Alley, som...
News today is that there's a lady in Minnesota who finally stood up to the record companies' ridiculous and draconian copyright rules. And what does she get for it? 220,000 dollars in fines. For 24 songs she supposedly downloaded. Yeah, that's a little over 9,000 dollars a song. Now, I understand that the record companies' goal was to make an example of the single mother of two, but she maintains her innocence - that she was neither involved in downloading or uploading music. An...
I don't know how many of you are Radiohead fans (I'll be the first to tell you, BlueDev is not, so he's not going to care about this news), but the big news came out today - new Radiohead! And in a very weird way . . . Radiohead finished their deal with EMI after their last record, Hail to the Thief (2004). And they've been silent ever since. Frontman Thom Yorke put out a solo album, The Eraser (2006), that initially I liked, but with subsequent listens I've been less excited by it. ...
Do you know how cool it would be if all the cell towers in the entire world exploded tomorrow? Forget about all the problems to commerce, communications, etc. I don't care. I still think it would be wonderful. Maybe then I could get some PEACE AND QUIETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's ridiculous when people come into the bank, with their stupid Bluetooth dongledildoes hanging from their ears, gabbing and c...
Given to the Rising By: Neurosis Year: 2007 Click here for the artists site Neurosis will claim your souls. Simple as that. They require your complete adulation. They demand that you worship them as gods of metal. I don't even think that they necessarily want your stinky souls, but they've earned them. They have worked far too hard to climb to the top of the fringe metal heap, as the single most blisteringly original band in the entire US. They've consi...
People always worry about Big Brother. They have that image fixed in their minds - the thick, dark mustache, the heavy brow, and the growling visage, overlooking everything. But I'm more and more convinced that a "Big Brother"-style government is a concept that will never have credence in the US, simply because we've been weaned on the idea that a government like that is bad. (Never mind the long conversation we could have about how Huxley's dystopic vision is the frightening future of the...
This was originally going to be a pithy one-liner about how the only cereal worth serving in heaven is Cinnamon Toast Crunch. (You people don't understand what that cereal does to me - and I've got FIVE FULL BOXES in my possession RIGHT NOW. ) But, in constructing a line full of pith, I began thinking. What would I really like heaven to be like? What would make some place in the hereafter HEAVEN for me? So I thought that rather than subject the internet to my usual sarcastic comment...