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• New sex ed funding ends decade of abstinence-only

  Fri Oct 1, 2010
  • ...Sixteen-year-old Leticia Vargas was reluctant to attend a Planned Parenthood program in Lake Worth, Fla., that replicates Carerra's model, but her mom insisted. Hearing about sex was awkward at first, she said, but the program has changed her thinking.

• Posts indicate alleged sex-snooping victim e-mailed staff for help before suicide

  Fri Oct 1, 2010
  • A college prank that was over the line and went terribly wrong - I remember the pranks that got pulled off in college, and this would have been right up with the mean girls' alley to do something like this if the technology existed in my day.

• What Halloween candy do you think is the grossest?

  Fri Oct 1, 2010
  • What??! Gummy worms and chocolate covered-ants didn't make the list?! Can't believe it!

• Which is your favorite Peanuts special?

  Tue Sep 28, 2010
  • Classic, classic, classic! This one and Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer are my favs.

• Do you watch calories when you eat out?

  Wed May 26, 2010
  • Don't eat out often, but when I do, I look for something that may not be the healthiest, but still is better than Chicken Fried Steak.

• How far should parents go to help an adult child land a job?

  Fri May 21, 2010
  • Helicopter parents just continuing to "guide" junior from college to a career. *sigh*

• Inventors say BP ignoring oil spill ideas

  Wed May 19, 2010
  • Let's throw BP & Co.'s scientists & engineers into a room with nothing but some basic equipment and duct tape (like the engineers did with plastic bags, cardboard and duct tape to save Apollo 13) to figure out a way to stop these leaks.

• Pakistan blocks YouTube over unIslamic content

  Thu May 20, 2010
  • Ah yes, their temper tantrums are dangerous to us all. These radicals need to be put into a corner for a huge time-out (meaning put them into their own little country with high walls so none of them can get out.

• Wheat-free diet no help for autism

  Wed May 19, 2010
  • As a parent with a PDD-NOS ADHD son, we tried several "far-fetched" things to help our son. He was very hyperactive and acted out a lot in his preschool Spec Ed class. He was on the GFCF diet for about two years, with very little benefit.

• Pakistan blocks YouTube over unIslamic content

  Thu May 20, 2010
  • If Muslims in Pakistan (or elsewhere for that matter) are so damned insulted by these websites, isn't it their responsibility not to go to the website, and not the responsibility of the government to block the site?