The starting point for talking to kids about sex.
July 23, 2011 2 Comments on The starting point for talking to kids about sex.

via HugoSchwyzer.net.

So many adults are fearful that telling kids that sex is pleasurable will simply encourage young people to have it before they are physically and emotionally ready for the consequences. Better, they imagine, to emphasize that it’s important to wait and to stress the risks. But as it turns out, centering pleasure is a great way to minimize the chances that a teen will be pressured into doing something that they don’t want to do.
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Bread vs. stones
July 13, 2011 Comments Off on Bread vs. stones

What is hateful… is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men, who, having the enjoyment of power, do not discharge the duties of power; they are the men who, having the power to redress wrongs, refuse to listen to the petitioners that are sent to them; they are the men who, when they are asked for a loaf, give a stone.
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Parenting our kids to death…
June 27, 2011 Comments Off on Parenting our kids to death…

Via: The Atlantic

Here I was, seeing the flesh-and-blood results of the kind of parenting that my peers and I were trying to practice with our own kids, precisely so that they wouldn’t end up on a therapist’s couch one day. We were running ourselves ragged in a herculean effort to do right by our kids-yet what seemed like grown-up versions of them were sitting in our offices, saying they felt empty, confused, and anxious.
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The illusions of psychiatry…
June 24, 2011 Comments Off on The illusions of psychiatry…

NewYorkTimes

His work consists of asking patients a series of questions about their symptoms to see whether they match up with any of the disorders in the DSM. This matching exercise, he writes, provides “the illusion that we understand our patients when all we are doing is assigning them labels.”
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Injustice
May 29, 2011 Comments Off on Injustice

Swedish Pirate Party

Laws are not made because they are righteous.
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Why Evangelicals Hate Jesus
March 4, 2011 Comments Off on Why Evangelicals Hate Jesus

via huffingtonpost.com.

Jesus unambiguously preached mercy and forgiveness. These are supposed to be cardinal virtues of the Christian faith. And yet Evangelicals are the most supportive of the death penalty, draconian sentencing, punitive punishment over rehabilitation, and the governmental use of torture.
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A problem with freedom…
February 19, 2011 1 Comment on A problem with freedom…

via Spiegel.de. (Yes, it’s a long read, and it is SO worth reading…)

No bars. No walls. No armed guards. The prison island of Bastøy in Norway is filled with some of the country’s most hardened criminals. Yet it emphasizes self-control instead of the strictly regulated regimens common in most prisons. For some inmates, it is more than they can handle.
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Making Rabbits Blush…
February 11, 2011 3 Comments on Making Rabbits Blush…

via Californians for Population Stabilization.

In “Beyond Choice, Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century,” he has written eloquently about reproductive issues and addresses the importance of spacing between births:

Women face huge risks to their health from pregnancy and childbirth. The biggest killer of women over time has been childbirth. When women die, their children are more likely to die as well.

Women have evolved to minimize these risks by planning and spacing their children and by limiting the number of children they bear.
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The starting point for talking to kids about sex.

Bread vs. stones

Parenting our kids to death…

The illusions of psychiatry…

Injustice

Why Evangelicals Hate Jesus

A problem with freedom…

Making Rabbits Blush…

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