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POPSSex Ed Teacher Answers Student Questions on Masturbation, Parents Seek Criminal Charges This type of fear based mentality on the side of parents and school administrators is a large part of the reason teens struggle with sexual issues. Parents don't want to talk about it...prosecute teachers who try to answer the students questions...and yet we ask "Oh my! What has happened to our youth? Where have we gone wrong?" These parents need to be sued for utter stupidity. Don't attack a Sex-Ed teacher for trying to answer legitimate questions! If they want to control the minds of their children...HOME SCHOOL them in a church basement somewhere and mind the shackles please, they tend to come loose with time and age.
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POPSThe Way Things Were... A Window in Time Unbelievable and hard to imagine in today's world. Life in the early 1900's, seen through the eyes of my Great-Aunt, Jewel. I feel honored that her daughter shared such a treasure with me.
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POPSRules Kids Won't Learn In School "This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "You're not the boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it's on your dime. Don't whine about it or you'll sound like a baby boomer."
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POPSParamount to drop Blue-Ray High-Def DVDs Looks like the split between Blue-Ray and High -Def is working out. Blue-Ray for games, Hi-Def, for movies. Keep Parents, and Kids in separate rooms, with separate formats, so they wont be as likely to mess wtith each others 'programs'
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POPSAmerica's Near-Poor - There But For Grace ... I see this a lot here in America. I may even be one of these people myself! One paycheck from welfare or becoming a "street person" with no home. Women are in more vulnerable to this than men. I recently spent the day with a homeless woman. I saw where she lived (in the woods behind a shopping center) I saw where she slept (in a sleeping bag on some plastic bags and newspaper) and I went to the grocery store with her to buy her meal for the day (after she had earned $3.00 answering some questions at a market research office ... where I met her). I took her to a county office to get 6 public bus coupons so she could get across town to pan-handle for money to continue paying for her small storage room where everything she owned was stored. There but for grace my friends!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_But_For_the_Grace_of_God_(Stargate_SG-1)
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POPSMel Stuart on the making of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory An interview with the man behind the film version of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." I never knew the movie was funded by the Quaker Oats Co. as part of a product tie-in that never materialized. Stuart describes such arcana as the difficulties of working with Oompa-Loompas and how to keep a chocolate river from smelling bad.
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POPSHigh childhood IQ linked to antitraditional attitudes in adults A study of a large representative sample of the UK population shows that high childhood IQ is correlated with antitraditional (i.e., liberal, mostly) attitudes in adults (described as "antiracist, pro-working women, socially liberal," and democratic).This correlation is independent of gender, occupation and social class. Full PDF at the author's website (http://snipr.com/3ixli).
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POPSPublic want 'traffic lights' on food labelling I think traffic lights in combination with % figures will be the optimum way of labelling food. More news clips on nutrition, staying healthy and losing weight - in the Chris Street blog: http://preview.tinyurl.com/3cytut
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POPSSliming Graeme Frost Graeme Frost, then, is exactly the kind of child the program is intended to help. But that didn’t stop the right from mounting an all-out smear campaign against him and his family. After awhile one would think I'd get used to it, but just yesterday a clipper saw fit to use the Frosts to further their own personal political agenda. It never, ever, ceases to amaze me that the right doesn't care about the cost of the war in Iraq but will bang their head against the wall making judgments about who deserves what.
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POPSBarely Scraping By and the Effects to Educating the Next Generation This article is a clear a vivid representation of why a new outlook on educating our future citizens need to be considered. Society is losing access to some of our finest minds because students do not have a opportunity to be educated to their fullest ability. We should abolish the relationship between money and educating the world's students of excellence. Education: the key to break the chains of poverty. www.enocis.org
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POPSSliming Graeme Frost
MORE: "In fact, however, Republicans had already made their first move: an e-mail message from the office of Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, sent to reporters and obtained by the Web site Think Progress, repeated the smears against the Frosts and asked: “Could the Dems really have done that bad of a job vetting this family?” And the attempt to spin the media worked, to some extent: despite reporting that has thoroughly debunked the smears, a CNN report yesterday suggested that the Democrats had made “a tactical error in holding up Graeme as their poster child,” and closely echoed the language of the e-mail from Mr. McConnell’s office. All in all, the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, and in particular its routine reliance on character assassination in place of honest debate. If service members oppose a Republican war, they’re “phony soldiers”; if Michael J. Fox opposes Bush policy on stem cells, he’s faki
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POPSUS Immigration Laws Throw Away Talent Douglas McGray interviews "Maria", a bright UCLA student who was born in Mexico, illegally brought to the US by her parents when she was 9, wants to be a OB-GYN, but is facing a bleak future because she cannot work here legally. For those of you who like to talk about all of the problems with illegal immigrants and think we ought to kick them all out, listen to this program.
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POPSCholera Epidemic in Northen Iraq From the article: "The source of the epidemic remains unclear but the WHO remains confident it can be brought under control, Chaib said. Naeema Al-Gasseer, the WHO's representative in Iraq, warned however that delays in ensuring access to safe water, safe food and enhanced hygiene practices could all lead to the further spread of cholera. Northern Iraq suffered an earlier cholera outbreak in 1999, while the disease struck the southern province of Basra shortly before the US-lead invasion of 2003."
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POPSCreationist Instruction The religious wackos never stop trying. And they come from all strata of society from snake handling loonies to Governors of Alaska.
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POPSThe Wonder Pets For parents of little ones, this show is really well done. The first time I watched it, I thought "wth?" because it's so unusual. The duckling has a lisp, which for some reason seems so endearing. Lots of singing, with original scores by Broadway composers.
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POPSFemale absenteeism is not just about child care Flett acknowledges that women carry most of the responsibilities at home, whether caring for ill children or aging parents. But he believes women can be their own worst enemies in the workplace because they feel the need to give managers too much information. “Women will often make excuses for why they’re not coming to work, which opens them up to the alpha males that keep them out of the corner office.” But, he maintains, just being a woman, mom or not, can work against you: “It’s a stereotype inoculated in our bone marrow. You are less reliable because you’re a girl and not driven by testosterone.”
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