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1) i am quite saddened by the separation of ryan phillippe and reese witherspoon.
2) i was flipping through the most recent isue of mother jones and read some interesting stuff:
A: Since President Bush took office, almost $1 billion in federal funds has been committed to abstinence-only education. -- Free Teens USA, which last year recieved $600,000 to teach abstinence in schools, is linked to the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who has said that "the separation between religion and politics is what Satan likes most." -- An exercise recommended by Free Teens has students spit in a cup, trade cups with another student, and drink. Students are told that sex is more intimate than drinking someone else's spit. -- In 2005, the CDC awarded an abstinence education group $200,000 to develop a sexual-healt curriculum for doctors in training. The group tapped Dr. David Hager-opponent of Plan B and author of As Jesus Cared For Women: Resotring Women Then and Now-to head the project. -- The National Abstinence Clearinghouse, whose budget has increased more than 500% since 2001, has recieved $2.7 million in government funding to develop abstinence-only curricula. -- This year, the Abstinence Clearinghouse's annual conference had a "wizard of Oz" theme, including a panel titled "Ding, Dong, the Witch Is Dead! Which Old Witch? (The 'Safe-Sex' Witch)." -- Between 2001 and 2005, more than $30 million in federal abstinence funds went to some 50 crisis pregnancy centers, anti-abortion clinics that give false information to women. -- Cotillions where girls escorted by there fathers pledge chastity are known as Purity Balls. -- At Purity Balls, fathers read this pledge: "I choose before God to cover my daughter as her authority and protection in the area of purity...as the highest priest in my home." -- Virginity pledgers are much less likely than non-pledgers to use contraception the first time they have sex, are equally likely to contract STDs, and are teice as likely to engage in anal sex.
i think this was a recap of a full article, and the source is uber-liberal. all i'm saying is i found it interesting.
B: they presented some pretty great little random facts as well.
to protest a wind turbine, llanfynydd, wales, changed its name to a 66-letter welsh word meaning "a quiet beautiful village, an historic place with a rare kite under threat from wretched blades."
in september, an idaho gubernatorial candidate changed his name to "pro-life." last year, a candidate for u.s. senate changed his middle name to "none of the above" (but couldn't put it on the ballot), and an aspiring russian governor changed his name to "harry potter" (he lost).
at least 3 americans are named ESPN.
abducted by the CIA, german citizen khaled el-masri was detained for 5 months even after the CIA knew it had confused him with al quaeda operative khalid al-masri.
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