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Does Derbyshire honestly think that knowing Spanish doesn’t already confer an advantage to the job seeker? N.B. the reference to trade partners in the preceding text. Is this preference for people with actual communication skills a thing Americans actually want? ¿Que carajo quieres, pajero? Life handed to you on a silver platter? Conservatives once [...]

The title pretty much sums up last week.
My dead bird tattoo* makes my arm itch like hell, in part because the tattoo artist insists on shaving my arm (why can’t they tattoo around the hair? for me?) and in part because every time I get ink I scab up like a muthafucka. Luckily, [...]

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, got a nice, almost fellatio-level write up in the New York Times today.
A study of the university’s science program published in the March 31 issue of the journal Science sets forth an eye-opening recipe for remaking science education in America generally — and in particular, for increasing minority participation, which [...]

Humans and chimps diverged a bit later than scientists originally thought.
A detailed analysis of human and chimp DNA suggests the lines finally diverged less than 5.4 million years ago.
The finding, published in the journal Nature, is about 1-2 million years later than the fossils have indicated.
Now, pretend you’re and evolutionary biologist, and you have [...]

Dearest San Francisco youth,
I do hope this textual message finds u in good health. Of course, it is imperative we make every effort 2 maintain ur well-being, don’t you agree? Surely u do. As such, I should like 2 broach a delicate subject: sexual relations and their accompanying risks.
Now, [...]

Federal health officials say they would like HIV testing to be as common as a cholesterol check.
Finally!
The guidelines for routine testing would apply to every American ages 13 to 64, according to the proposed plan by the U.S. Centers for Disease control and Prevention.
One-quarter of the 1 million Americans with the AIDS virus [...]

There’s a discussion going on at Pandagon about Janet Crouse’s reaction to the Harvard School of Public Health’s article on an analysis of viginity pledges.
In a nutshell, the article says that teens, when asked, will lie about their sexual experience or about if they had or had not ever taken a virginity pledge. The [...]

Kentucky’s a mite conservative.
Shut the fuck up, I know! The things you learn on this blog.
Most reactionary parents prefer that their children abstain from sex until it’s time for grandbabies, but it turns out that, in some KY communities, they hate the idea that a teacher might’ve bonked someone, too. Especially if [...]

Jill from Feministe has tackled the gargantuan task of remaining measured and polite while arguing for freedom of choice over at Dawn Eden’s soundstage. I can’t imagine how she keeps her cool as the oh-so-enlightened wingnuttery labels her a Nazi and such; she’s got real Christian patience, that one.
Like Jill and many of our [...]