About a year ago, I remember watching one of the prime time news shows and hearing about this new study on abstinence programs, like the ones where the kids wear "promise rings" that mean that they won't have sex until marriage. Well, the survey concluded that, at the end of the day, the programs were completely useless. I found an article about it here. At the end of the day, kids involved in such programs popped their cherries at the same age as the kids who didn't. They also have just as high, and in some cases higher, rate of unwanted pregnancies and STI's. The government wastes $176 million annually on such programs. Coupled with another study that said that 1 in every 4 high school girls has an STI, you have to ask where we fucked up.
At the end of the day, kids are going to have sex, regardless of whatever kinds of things grown ups shove down their throats. So it would be much more useful to educate them on safe sex, birth control, and contraceptives for their own benefit and well being. If a kid doesn't know how to properly use a condom, then you can't blame them when they come home with a kid of their own. You can, however, blame yourself for sticking your fingers in your ears and pretending like teenage sex doesn't happen. You could also ignore grizzly bears and hangnails, but that won't make them go away. Education is the key, not ignorance.
Oh yeah, baba booey baba booey.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Abstinence programs don't work - preach safe sex, not no sex.
Solar Power could save us - why the fuck aren't we doing anything about this!!!
According to Digital Journal, and a lot of other people, including this guy I saw on Bill Maher, if we utilized the solar power that could be generated from 6 hot spots on our planet, we could power the entire Earth and then some. This would decrease our dependency on fossil fuels, decrease global warming, lower oil prices, and other good things. Why countries like the US aren't investing in these types of resources is ridiculous, choosing instead to waste money on the war. Seriously sometimes I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Christian group runs out of things to compian about, calls new Starbucks slutty.
According to The BBC, some Christian group called The Resistance is calling a new Starbucks logo "slutty." I mean seriously, if this is the first place your mind goes with this, you need to have yourself checked out. I'm sure there are more pertinent issues at hand, like the president completely ignoring the environment and using tons of money fighting the war instead of saving the planet. But fuck it, let's just go kill some brown people and cover David's private parts too, how's that grab ya? Ridiculous. Plus, there's like, a billion other reasons to call out Starbucks.
Jason Segel vs. Lou "The HULK" Ferrigno
It's from the new movie I Love You, Man starring Jason Segel, Paul Rudd, and Rashida "I love you, girl" Jones.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
The Lakers are going to the Championship!!! I'm on the verge of tears!!!
Can't type. Discombobulated. Kobe = GOAT.
Kanye West - "Flashing Lights" version 3
http://www.traffickingmedia.com/index.php?id=544
Eraserhead?
Friday, May 23, 2008
new Weezer video - "Pork and Beans"
It's basically a compilation of a bunch of parodies/reenactments of various famous web clips and Internet superstars. Playing drums with lightsabers = the coolest thing ever. Period.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Iron Man sucked.
Like, really really bad. Not Ghost Rider bad, but still, kinda cheesy. Terrence Howard and Downey Jr. were good, but still, just an all around shit storm of a movie.
100th post = did you see Kobe last night?
San Antonio was going to let Kobe have his shots. According to their strategy, they were going to let him score his 35 points and still win by playing their god-awfully slow game. But Mr. 1 Better Than Jordan (24) himself recognized this and refused to play in accordance with their game plan. Then, like going full force ahead and then flanking from both sides, a favorite move of General Patton himself, Bryant went off and that team from Central Texas got knocked off their heels and onto their asses. They never saw it coming.
Say what you will, but so will I. You can't stop what's coming.
Lakers in '08.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Michael from "The Wire" is on the new 90210???? WTF!!!??
So, how does it feel to go from a predominately black show, to, well, 90210???
quit the bullshit talk about 2012 already
Refutation
In this age we are approaching the same count again, only there is a common misconception of the Maya's practice of abbreviating their dates to five vigesimal places. According to the Maya there will be a baktun ending in 2012, a significant event being the end of the 13th 394 year period, but not the end of the world.[10]
[edit] Inscriptions beyond 2012
Maya stelae occasionally show dates beyond 2012. Most of these are in the form of "distance dates", where a Long Count date is given with a distance date to be added. For example, on the Tablet of Inscriptions from Palenque the following Long Count date was found: 9.8.9.13.0 8 Ahau 13 Pop (24 March 603 Gregorian) with a distance date of 10.11.10.5.8. The resulting date is given as 1.0.0.0.0.8 5 Lamat 1 Mol,[11] or 21 October 4772 – almost 3,000 years into the future. The king Pacal of Palenque predicted that on this date the eightieth Calendar Round anniversary of his accession will be celebrated, suggesting he did not believe the world would end in 2012.[12]
[edit] Summary
Despite the publicity generated by the 2012 date, Susan Milbrath, curator of Latin American Art and Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, stated that "We [the archaeological community] have no record or knowledge that [the Maya] would think the world would come to an end" in 2012.[13]
"For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. in Crystal River, Florida. To render December 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."[14]
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
new VH1 doc "Sex The Revolution"
The Defamer has a really great article about Sex: The Revolution,which is VH1's new doc on sex. It's by the same people who did The Drug Years, which was super awesome, and out of the hundreds of hours of TV I recorded, is one of the only ones I actually burned on DVD and still have. I haven't gotten to watch this new doc yet, but DVR-ed it all and will eventually.
new N*E*R*D video - "Everyone Nose"
I guess cocaine is cool again. Too bad I don't dig chicks that look like this:
first pic of the cast for the new 90210 show.
Man whatever. This shit is hype as fuck. But they're still really white.
