Birth control

Parental Malpractice Nation: Too Many Americans Are Kathy Hilton, Many 10-Year-Olds See Violent R-Rated Films

By Debbie Schlussel **** SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE **** I'm not surprised that Kathy Hilton--Exhibit A of parental malpractice in America--has the chutzpah to attack John McCain for using an image of his daughter in a campaign ad. McCain's the bad guy for using a picture of someone we all know is a dingbat and a whore in his ad. But she's done nothing wrong by raising her daughter to be a porn star and professional airhead. That's the way it is in today's America. Up is down, right is left. And Mic...

The Bob Marley Legacy - Damian At 30

posted by milacurt It’s been three years since Damian Marley’s third album, Welcome to Jamrock, put the youngest son of reggae legend Bob Marley on the musical map with dance-floor slammers such as the title track and “Move!”. Since then, the 30-year-old has been working on new music, but as usual his career has been a family affair. Marley says he is working on a new record now and has helped his brother Stephen on the recording and touring for his latest record, last year’s Mind Cont...

Sex Without a Condom the New Engagement Ring?

The comment thread on NPR is blowin’ up! Listeners are ranting (and raving) about the new “What’s the New What” segment on NPR in which Pendarvis Harshaw, an Oakland teen at Youth Radio, discusses how for his generation, sex without a condom is a sign of being in a committed relationship. Harshaw and his group of friends advocate getting tested for STD’s and using birth control pills as a responsible way to have sex in a monogamous relationship. Listeners’ comments are all over the ...

Problems: Obesity and Pregnancy

We all know that being overweight carries consequences—increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, etc.—but obesity during pregnancy prompts even more tangible complications. Annie Murphy Paul of The New York Times explains: The challenges of caring for these patients begin early. “We perform an anatomical survey of the fetus, but in an extremely obese woman, the ultrasound signal often can’t penetrate through all the tissue,” Dr. Mark Chames, an obstetrician at the Unive...

Vasectomy - the new condom in your wallet

Filed under: Just for dads, Love & sex, Pregnancy & birthWhile it's not standard operating procedure, it's not uncommon for an older gentleman who is done having kids to get a vasectomy. When it comes to having sex, I imagine it is a much more convenient and efficient method of birth control than using a condom. These days, however, it's not just granddads who are taking advantage of that convenience. According to this article, younger men are opting to take control of the contraception situatio...

Black History: The First Klan

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing click to enlarge From Wikipedia: As W.E.B. DuBois noted, "It is always difficult to stop war, and doubly difficult to stop civil war... In the case of civil war, where the contending parties must rest face to face after peace, there can be no quick and perfect peace." As reported by Mississippi Governor Sharkey in 1866, disorder, lack of control and lawlessness were widespread; in some states armed bands of Confederate soldiers roa...

Nancy Pelosi at Netroots Nation

Nancy Pelosi showed a lot of guts to come before the Netroots Nation audience who were ready to ask some hard questions. I don't think most of us were happy about her FISA vote, but she told us it was better than it had been and the thing that caused her and the House to have to go along was that 17 Democratic Senators made it possible for the Senate to send them a bad bill. Natasha asked the following question about Abstinance Only Education: Every day in the U.S. 10,000 young people get an ST...

Deron's Three-Year Deal Is Sign of the Times

Deron Williams, the Jazz's stud point guard and, to those in the know, 1B to Chris Paul's 1A, finally agreed to a deal yesterday. The delay? Deciding how many years of max money he wanted, that not-so-quiet revolution in NBA labor relations that may actually force GMs to do their jobs well. From The Salt Lake Tribune: Although the Jazz had hoped Williams would agree to a five-year extension, the longest allowable, Williams ultimately decided to follow LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Paul in ...

Poisonous Parenting: On Natural Families

Trigger Warning: This post contains descriptions of child abuse, which my be a trigger for some abuse survivors. I've never spent much time in or near family court. Even when Parker's adoption was finalized, D.C. family court was having an "adoption day," where almost nothing was on the docket but adoption finalizations. Our attorney told us that the judges really loved "adoption day, " because it was such a welcome change from what they saw on a daily basis. But that day, we were so happy that ...

Another bad week for John McCain

I recorded this week's Current video, about John McCain's rough week, before I'd actually watched footage of the worst McCain moment of all: the GOP nominee struggling to answer a question about whether he believes insurance companies should have to cover contraception (for the record, he voted against a bill that would have compelled them to). On CNN Thursday night, Republican Ed Rollins said it might be the most painful political spectacle he'd seen in his 40 years in politics. It really is th...