Margaret Talbot has a must-read piece in The New Yorker from earlier this month looking at differences in sexual behavior between culturally conservative Christians, especially…
Today the Washington Post wrote about a study released that shows a correlation between unintended pregnancies and watching television shows that portray “flirting, necking, discussion…
Or at least that’s what a study conducted by the RAND Institution claims. Here’s the Washington Post’s summary:
The study, which tracked more than 700…
It’s easy to forget when you live in an enclave of liberal hedonism like Washington, D.C., but there are states in America that still have…
Yesterday at Feministing, Samhita did a post on ten things she “absolutely hate[s] about heteronormative dating”:
1. You are expected to dress nice and act…
In some weeks patterns develop in the reporting at far-flung campuses, and seemingly everyone will be turning out a story on the same subject. This…
Usually I give news items in college papers a couple sarcastic lines in my “Campus Beat” roundups, but I was too flabbergasted by this one…
There are a couple lines in a David Sedaris essay (unfortunately, I can’t recall which one) where he declares that he was very skeptical about…
Have you ever noticed that when wealthy Westerners live and work abroad, they’re called “expats,” while people from the developing world are called “migrants”? Or…
Yesterday, Russell presented an anecdotal case for why gay men should be allowed to donate blood in the United States. I happen to have written…
Everyone is arguing over whether the pregnancy Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol, is a valid campaign issue, or whether it should be left alone. The issue…
A while back, there was some debate among Kay and Haley about why some parents were uneasy about their children receiving the HPV vaccine Gardasil,…
Put together a bunch of people in their early- and mid-twenties who are fit, share similar goals and passions in a controlled area and what…
Jesse posted that the news about John Edwards having an affair is disappointing. I’m not so sure it is. In fact, I’m not so sure…
From ABC News:
John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extramarital affair with a novice filmmaker, the former Senator admitted to ABC…
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