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Sex Education Should Begin At Birth

April 28, 2008 – 10:34 am

One might think that in an evolved, educated, first-world nation, the issue of “sex ed” would have been settled long ago. After all, what could be more important than teaching children about their own bodies, and encouraging each individual to make responsible choices when it comes to reproduction? And yet, the debate continues to rage, [...]

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A Question of Reality

June 11, 2007 – 8:32 am

I just searched for “reality”, and I got this. I think Flickr just proved my point… Photo by Paula Iannuzzi. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)We think we know what reality is. Our lives are filled with work, sex, and food that we consider to be real. The processes within your mind, where you categorize the input [...]

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Kids These Days

April 30, 2007 – 11:49 am

’nuff said Photo by カランドラカス. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)Before we go any further, there is something you should know about me. I was one of those kids. The scary, weird kids that you try to keep an eye on, ’cause you know there is something wrong, but you don’t know what to do about it. [...]

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The View From Inside The Studio

July 13, 2006 – 8:54 pm

Today, I took my son on a homeschooling field trip to the local news station. It’s not a big place, and I can’t say I have watched their reporting more than once or twice in all the years I have lived here. We don’t have t.v. programming at home, but we have watched enough while [...]

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The Rise and Fall of the Kevlar Kids

April 19, 2006 – 10:35 am

Thousands of children have died in Iraq. No one denies this. Of course, there is a war going on over there. Everyone knows people die in a war, sometimes even civilians. Some of these deaths were accidents, where our military acted rashly and just plain made a mistake. Some of these deaths were just kids [...]

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