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Virginity Pledges make Babies! but we knew that right? that’s the punishment for fuckin.

Praying and promising to daddy that they won't knock boots results in sex occurring just as often in the "pledged virgins" population as the average teen demo, but increases the chance that the sex is unprotected. Cleary the fundies are burying their heads in the sand if they continue to believe the lie. (WaPo):
The new analysis of data from a large federal survey found that more than half of youths became sexually active before marriage regardless of whether they had taken a "virginity pledge," but that the percentage who took precautions against pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases was 10 points lower for pledgers than for non-pledgers.
"Taking a pledge doesn't seem to make any difference at all in any sexual behavior," said Janet E. Rosenbaum of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, whose report appears in the January issue of the journal Pediatrics. "But it does seem to make a difference in condom use and other forms of birth control that is quite striking."
Why on earth are states (and the federal government) still funding abstinence-only education?! Uncle Sam gives $176 million of your tax dollars each year to fund ignorance as study after study comes out dispelling the efficacy of abstinence-only ed.

Pam’s House Blend:: Study: teen virginity pledges don’t work

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Science does work

This time, it’s a mainstream medical news site that has been infiltrated by this nonsense, printing already-disproven claims attacking Gardasil, the vaccine that can prevent cervical cancer in millions of women.

If you think this is a harmless group of cranks, think again. Cervical cancer kills thousands of women every year, and with vaccination it is almost entirely preventable the vaccine protects against Human Papilloma Virus, or HPV, which is responsible for the cancer.

Antivaxxers claim they care about people, especially, children — and I am very sure they do. But by being blinded by antiscience their effect is exactly the opposite. Antiscience kills. Educate yourself.

Antivaxxers and the media | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine.

Enjoying what you do

When I love what I’m working on I can work for hours and not notice.  I’ve just started putting together a round of webpages and portals for my artistic friends.  We’re trying to find a way to be seen by people outside our close circle.

And the work flies by.  It’s a lot of learning how to do something new.  It’s full of patience and investigation and doing it exactly how I work.  It’s all about what I want it to do.

So fun, so easy, so much work gets done.

Then there’s the stuff I do for others.  For clients who pay me.  Time can drag, communication isn’t always clear, the design idea they have in their head can’t be described or explained and honestly probably doesn’t look good in real life – I have those all the time – but they are just annoyed that you can’t put your finger on what they want.

My mom mentioned I didn’t like to work as a teenager.  She was right.  I didn’t like life as a teenager let alone flipping burgers for another human being to make money off my labor.  The world was weird and hard and books had all these interesting, romantic, intelligent things happening in them and frankly this work situation just freaked me out.

I cried easily when authority straightened me out.

It took a lot of years of HAVING to have a job for me to learn how to just get in there, learn it, realize mistakes are gonna happen, pay attention and usually you are better than the other folks that are there so stop freaking! Exposure therapy.

My biggest worry is that I will follow my bliss, as Oprah urges, and it will lead me straight to financial ruin and the gutter.  THAT DAMN GUTTER’S BEEN HAUNTING ME FOR 10 YEARS NOW!!!!!!

So we shall see what comes of it and hopefully, soon, It will be ready to share.

a simple test for other things

This is a throwaway post, used simply to see if other feed feeding websites will pick up the updates of the rss thingy.  TADA!!!!

Oh if only, I want photoshop in the palm of my hand!!!!!!!

YouTube – Photoshop for iPhone.

Damn You Dr. Phil!!!

I know it’s popular to hate him and people’s styles are different, what they like to hear and see, but damn it as big as a douche as dr. phil is rumoured to be some of this shows hit a nerve.  And he does give out pretty good rules for how to live life and be happy for the majority of people.  He’s more accepting and supportive thorugh out the shows than poeple may think.  And the world is still a patriarchy and we still love our strong, wise father figures to tell us what to do.  I’m ok with most of his stuff.

And today he tells me what to do.  It’s a show about divorce and kids and what you are to and not-to-do.  I’m pretty sure me and my ex do all the not-to-do things, and when someone asked dr. phil why someone would do these things dr. phil replies, “Because they are hugely pissed!”

That’s just true.

But sometimes the pissed is for good reason though.

and I know I’m not spelling or typing well

but I’ve got to figure out a different way of getting the shit in my head out into art adn the world.  I have spent a lot of years building a business, and raising a kid, and trying to figure out my art in the spare time.

Life has moved fast.  i got distracted by the party instead of the art.  I am now at a point where I have something with the business, the kid is always a work in progress and the art, well a glimmering of how and what i want to do is in my inner eye.

But I have to start new and different habbits to get the art out.

My stage time has consisted off written pieces, poetry, a couple of songs now and again (very badly done I believe:) and learning how to speak out from my center without so much ego interference.  Learning to tell a story well.

I’ve had to fail a lot on stage to get to the point of even having any idea what I want to do on it.  Much of it is simply lecturing everyone to be like me adn doing so in a self-indulgent way, knowing that my open mics and are were simply for me, to explore and stay sane.

And now i have to apply that to my blog and simply allow myself to hit the editor and type out my inner and not worry what it looks like, if the thoughts are incomplete, the sentances confusing.  Right now I need to babble out my failings and my mistakes as well as completed thought out breaks and no matter how much practice i have with pie on my face it’s still a very scary thing.  Vulnerable.

I’m not very good at vulnerable anymore.  I’m pretty ok with that.

But if art is gonna be good you have to risk opening yourself up.  I’ll do that by barfing up my every simple idea and thought I can get onto this venue.  Hahhaaa

And one more post about posting is born.

All of them inherently begging, “listen, don’t judge me, just love me as I am.”

merry holidays people merry fuckin holidays

ARG!!!!

this is jsut a blogpost to say i need to write more blog posts but this stupid writing thing means that when I put my fingers to the keyboard the ideas I’ve been thinking about for the past two weeks go flying right out of my head.

but I also know that the less you do somethign the harder it is to keep it going so the less I write the harder it is to keep the conduit between fingers and brain open as well as how ignored my poor website will be.

this means randome babbling crap for everyone Happy 2009!!!!  Like the stage time I covet at the open mics my blog will be a forum open to failure and confusion.  To deeply personal revelations and full on three year old fits.

or something else equally horrible and boring to read.

BLAH, ARG, PLONK!

Ok, our President is Totally Yummy Man Flesh.

Peck-tacular Barack Obama photographed without his shirt in Hawaii | News.com.au Top stories | News.com.au