Of course, marrying for love is the real reason to put a ring on it, but this news doesn’t hurt.
Report: More men get economic boost from marriage
By DAVID CRARY, AP National WriterNEW YORK (AP) – Historically, marriage was the surest route to financial security for women. Nowadays it’s men who are increasingly getting the [...]

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Time Magazine labels the 00’s as “the decade from hell.”  What would you label it?
The ’00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell
By Andy Serwer
At exactly two minutes after midnight on Jan. 1, 2000, an alarm sounded at a nuclear power plant in Onagawa, Japan. Government officials and computer [...]

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Teen Commits Suicide Due to Bullying: Parents Sue School for Son’s Death
Family Wants No Money but Insists School Address Bullying and Three Other Suicides
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
April 2, 2009
Eric Mohat, 17, was harassed so mercilessly in high school that when one bully said publicly in class, “Why don’t you go home and shoot yourself, no [...]

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Wikipedia
Riot grrrl was an underground feminist punk movement that started in the early 1990s, and it is often associated with third-wave feminism (it is sometimes seen as its starting point). However, riot grrrl’s emphasis on universal female identity and separatism often appears more closely allied with second-wave feminism than with the third wave.[1] Riot grrrl [...]

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Is it that we (as a society) no longer find marriage important when it comes to having children?  Is it that more children born out of wedlock because there are fewer abortions?  Interesting…

US births break record; 40 pct out-of-wedlock
By MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer
ATLANTA (AP) – Remember the baby boom? No, not the one after World [...]

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I’m really not the least surprised.
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One in seven people believe it is acceptable in some circumstances for a man to hit his wife or girlfriend if she is dressed in “sexy or revealing clothes in public”, according to the findings of a survey released today.
A similar number believed that it was all right for a [...]

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It will be interesting to see if this song is yanked off of YouTube for copyright issues.  I have found it sad and amusing how people who once were real punks and anti-establishment can’t stand a little sharing of their music.  If it’s not making money every single time it’s played, then they just aren’t [...]

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You can see a scene from the movie with this song in it HERE.

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I missed this by a month.  I didn’t get the memo.
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The John & Yoko Amsterdam Bed-In took place from 25-31 March 1969 at The Hilton Hotel, Amsterdam, Holland.
The John & Yoko Montreal Bed-In took place from 26 May to 2 June 1969 at The Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Canada, culminating in the recording of the anthem [...]

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It sometimes takes me a while to catch up on my reading. Usually what happens is I have three or four newspapers stacked up, I grab them, sit on the couch, turn on the TV and flip through the pages. Today, before tossing it in the recycling pile, I found this convoluted gem in [...]

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I somehow ended up on a Skinhead website today when I was looking for vintage 1980s punk clothing for wardrobe for a photoshoot.  ANYHOO – though I love the Internet, I also curse how it taps into my “easy to distract” disorder.  I started reading this guy’s website and was surprised to learn that skinhead [...]

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In Old Town, The Sex Shop Is a Kiss-Off

By Allison Klein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 1, 2009; Page A01
To many in Old Town Alexandria, the sex shop that opened recently on King Street is nothing short of scandalous, a historical desecration just blocks from the boyhood home of Robert E. Lee.
But to Michael Zarlenga, [...]

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You might find my post about 2008 Miss. America worth reading if this is a topic that is interesting to you.
HERE: http://bodypolitics.allzah.com/?p=128
**for all the prudes out there – and the folks at work – there is some nudity on that website**

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By DHEEPTHI NAMASIVAYAM
Associated Press Writer
PARIS (AP) – Only one native speaker of Livonian remains on Earth, in Latvia. The Alaskan language Eyak went extinct last year when its last surviving speaker passed away.
Those are just two of the nearly 2,500 languages that UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, says are in danger [...]

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“What is the morals of a gay person? You can’t answer that because anything goes.”
~ Utah Senator Chris Buttars
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Oh, he said plenty with that little comment, but he’s been saying more.  I can’t wait until this breed of bigot in power evolves already.
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