Equality Starts in the Classroom

According to the Center for Disease Control, just having a gay straight alliance group in a school dramatically decreases depression, marijuana and alcohol abuse, suicidal thoughts and unexcused absences, imagine the positive outcome if an inclusive history were taught.

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The Cougar Phenomenon: Sex, Gender, and Love

By Alyssa Hart Cougars & Cubs!  Provocative articles have drawn attention to the cougar-cub phenomenon in recent years. Discussions invariably focus on the sexual dimension of the relationships and jokingly -- sometimes unflatteringly -- portray cougars as older women who “prey” upon younger men, or cubs.   These descriptions, however,…

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The Lamest Duck

Since our government has no fixed term of office (unlike most civilised nations), Cameron can push back his termination of office to 2015, but how he could ever rescue the possibility of re-election seems non-existent. (I say 're-election' for sake of argument; the reality is no one voted for this Frankenstein's monster of a government.)

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To My 7th Grade Self…

Maybe there's something to this.  Last week, I did a bit of "time-traveling".  Almost simultaneously, there was a powerful video released called "To My 7th Grade Self".  Brilliant idea!  If only we could. Our collective minds were in the same place.  Telling my 7th grade self to get it together and…

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Slow Food Movement

No, a fast food society will inevitably fail. It’s an absolute certainty that any society that bases its nutritional and food security on a dancing clown with red hair to match his shoes, accompanied by an assortment of other indoctrinal characters based on a 1960s bad acid trip, will destroy itself on the sheer weight—becoming too big to succeed.

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