Preach

(from 4 Things We Can Stop Pretending Are Legitimate)

Abstinence-Only Education

It. Doesn’t. Work.

Some things, we should never, ever do. Heroin, for example, is a thing you can live your whole life without sampling. Same with hate crimes. Just never do hate crimes. It’s easy. Abstain from racially motivated violence.

Sex, however, is a thing that most people would agree is okay to do sometimes. And, if you do it right, you can reduce the risks. However, if no one ever teaches you how to do it correctly, you’re going to do it anyway, but you’ll do it wrong, and everything will be a horrible disaster, and you’ll have a baby.

Let’s put it this way. You probably shouldn’t eat pizza all day long with anyone who will eat pizza with you. It’s not productive, and it’s not good for your body. But, if you pick your spots and take the proper precautions, pizza is something you can really enjoy, alone or with others.

You need guidance, someone to say: “Don’t eat that hot, bubbling pizza or it will give you blisters on your mouth.” On the other hand, it’s not helpful to say: “Pizza is a sin! Wait until marriage to have pizza!” Because then you’ll end up not knowing what kind of pizza you like, and you’re married to someone who doesn’t even know how to make pizza, and you start craving the neighbor’s pizza, and we all know where that leads.

I don’t remember what my point was, but I really want some pizza right now.

Edit:

Tennessee Education Spokesman Jerry Winters said that, “in this modern world to say that ‘just say no’ is the answer to teenage pregnancy is putting your head in the sand.”

(Source: thoughtcatalog.com)

imwithkanye:

Happy Motter’s Day. [image]

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life:

In honor of Mothers Day…  Grace Slick with her mother.

In one of the photos that ultimately ran in LIFE (Olson went back to Palo Alto for a re-shoot), new mom Grace dangles her daughter China by the feet in 1971. Setting up each shot of the stars with their folks “was really a matter of wanting to, whenever possible, show the contrast between how they were raised and who they were now,” Olson says. Virginia Wing, wrote LIFE, was a “soft-spoken suburban matron” —pretty much the opposite of her wild child. “Grace and I have different sets of moral values,” Mrs. Wing told LIFE, “but she’s her own person, and we understand each other.”

See more here.

http://gawker.com/5908425/tim-burton-jokes-about-ruining-the-potential-beetlejuice-sequel

Okay, yeah, I love Tim Burton and I’m really excited about his remake of Frankenweenie (not as excited for Dark Shadows, but we’ll see) but… is Beetlejuice 2 really necessary? The thing is, I really liked the first one. Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis are perfection, obviously Winona is phenomenal, and there is no need to put either Johnny Depp or Helena Bonham Carter into this movie (even though everyone knows I have a super huge crush on Helena). I mean, let’s be real, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the Tim Burton remake) was AWFUL.

Please don’t destroy the beauty you have already created, Tim. It would be like redoing Edward Scissorhands or Nightmare. Nobody wants that.

Edit: Michael Keaton is apparently probably going to reprise his role of Betelgeuse, so that’s a plus.

"Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it."

Maurice Sendak (via nedhepburn)

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On Finals

My first memory of life is dancing to the Eurythmics. I am now listening to the Eurythmics trying to frantically finish a paper.

Can we go back to being four years old, please?

Edit: Switching to Fleetwood Mac so that I can cry into my laptop without feeling awkward about my choice of music. My Eurythmic days are over.

H.D.

Sheltered Garden

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The Coquette: Dear Republicans, →

coketalk:

The Bush administration and key members of your party spent the last decade exploiting 9/11 for political gain. As a direct result of this exploitation, our country waged a false war and wasted a trillion dollars.

I point this out as a friendly reminder for those of you who think that President…

Just realized Isobel Crawley is Harriet Jones. I love television.